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Security and Public Health

Af: Simon Rushton Engelsk Hardback

Security and Public Health

Af: Simon Rushton Engelsk Hardback
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For most Western governments, defending against the threat of infectious disease is now an accepted security priority. Deciding what resources and policies to put in place to protect populations from pandemics, however, involves difficult political choices. How can we get these decisions right? And what are we prepared to sacrifice to achieve better health security? In this book, Simon Rushton explores the politics of pandemics in the contemporary world. Looking back over three decades of public health, he traces national and international efforts to tackle infectious disease, focusing in-depth on three core areas in which securitization has been particularly successful: rapidly spreading pandemic diseases, HIV/AIDS and man-made pathogenic threats, such as biological weapons. Three central problems raised by common responses to disease as a security threat are then examined: the impact upon individuals and civil liberties; the tendency to treat the symptoms and not the underlying causes of disease outbreaks; and the limited range of diseases deemed worthy of global attention and action. Arguing against a tendency to treat global health security as a technical challenge, the book stresses the need for a vibrant, and even confrontational, political engagement around the implications of securitizing public health.
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For most Western governments, defending against the threat of infectious disease is now an accepted security priority. Deciding what resources and policies to put in place to protect populations from pandemics, however, involves difficult political choices. How can we get these decisions right? And what are we prepared to sacrifice to achieve better health security? In this book, Simon Rushton explores the politics of pandemics in the contemporary world. Looking back over three decades of public health, he traces national and international efforts to tackle infectious disease, focusing in-depth on three core areas in which securitization has been particularly successful: rapidly spreading pandemic diseases, HIV/AIDS and man-made pathogenic threats, such as biological weapons. Three central problems raised by common responses to disease as a security threat are then examined: the impact upon individuals and civil liberties; the tendency to treat the symptoms and not the underlying causes of disease outbreaks; and the limited range of diseases deemed worthy of global attention and action. Arguing against a tendency to treat global health security as a technical challenge, the book stresses the need for a vibrant, and even confrontational, political engagement around the implications of securitizing public health.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN-13: 9781509515882
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1509515887
Kategori: Folkesundhedsvidenskab
Udg. Dato: 26 apr 2019
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 225mm
Højde: 144mm
Forlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Oplagsdato: 26 apr 2019
Forfatter(e): Simon Rushton
Forfatter(e) Simon Rushton

Kategori Folkesundhedsvidenskab

ISBN-13 9781509515882

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 240

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 225mm

Højde 144mm

Udg. Dato 26 apr 2019

Oplagsdato 26 apr 2019

Forlag John Wiley and Sons Ltd

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