Plagues and Politics: Infectious Disease and International Policy

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Boxes, Figures, Tables and Maps......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Notes on the Contributors......Page 15
1 Introduction......Page 18
2 Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases......Page 25
Ecological changes and agricultural development......Page 32
Changes in human demographics and behaviour......Page 34
International travel and commerce......Page 35
Technology and industry......Page 36
Microbial adaptation and change......Page 37
Breakdown of public health measures and deficiencies in public health infrastructure......Page 38
For our future......Page 39
References......Page 40
3 Climate, Ecology and Human Health......Page 44
Background......Page 45
Environmental change and opportunistic species......Page 48
Ecosystem health......Page 50
Environmental distress syndrome: monitoring global change......Page 51
Climate and emerging diseases......Page 52
The effects of climate variability on epidemics......Page 54
Rodents, synergies and surprises......Page 56
Marine coastal ecosystems......Page 59
Is the ocean warming?......Page 61
Discontinuities and instability......Page 63
The costs of climate variability and disease outbreaks......Page 64
An historical note on pandemics......Page 65
What can be done?......Page 68
A personal conclusion......Page 69
Further reading......Page 70
Some technical references......Page 71
4 The Economics of Emerging Infections in the Asia-Pacific Region: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?......Page 76
Case study descriptions of four epidemics......Page 81
Framework for evaluating risk of economic impact......Page 86
Conclusion......Page 89
References......Page 90
5 Economic Growth, Disruption, Deprivation, Disease and Death: On the Importance of the Politics of Public Health for Development......Page 93
Economic growth and the health of the populace in Britain, circa 1750–1870......Page 97
Economic growth and urban deterioration in early-nineteenth-century Britain......Page 103
Water, health and the politics and economics of public health in British cities......Page 109
Conclusions: the importance of politics, the state and social capital......Page 117
Notes......Page 124
6 Disease and International Development......Page 134
Microeconomic analysis......Page 136
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and their legacy of orphans......Page 140
Sectoral analysis......Page 142
Macroeconomic analysis......Page 153
National costs......Page 156
Notes......Page 161
7 The Map is not the Territory: Reconceiving Human Security......Page 168
The international and the global......Page 171
Human security......Page 172
Emerging and resurgent infectious diseases......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 176
Notes......Page 177
International relations theory......Page 181
Intra-state effects of ERID......Page 187
Notes......Page 194
Bibliography......Page 198
The post-antibiotic era......Page 200
Diseases without borders......Page 202
The city as vector......Page 204
The emblematic new disease......Page 205
The real threat of biowarfare......Page 206
A world at risk......Page 208
Prescriptions for national health......Page 210
10 Microsecurity......Page 212
Ecological security......Page 213
Globalization and microsecurity......Page 217
Social transformation and microsecurity......Page 219
Microinsecurity in sub-Saharan Africa......Page 223
The political economy of AIDS in South Africa......Page 225
Notes......Page 228
11 Beyond the Traditional Intelligence Agenda: Examining the Merits of a Global Public Health Portfolio......Page 231
In search of a post-Cold-War intelligence agency......Page 232
The significance of global public health intelligence......Page 236
Resources of public health intelligence......Page 241
The future of public health intelligence......Page 242
Notes......Page 247
12 The International Health Regulations in Historical Perspective......Page 252
Regime formation and regulatory roots: 1851–1951......Page 253
Regulation experience and reform in the late twentieth century: 1951–95......Page 260
Emerging diseases and new directions: reform in the 1990s......Page 267
Conclusion......Page 272
Notes......Page 273
Bibliography......Page 276
13 Public Health and International Law: the Impact of Infectious Diseases on the Formation of International Legal Regimes, 1800–2000......Page 279
The globalization of public health and infectious diseases......Page 280
Brief history of international law and infectious diseases......Page 282
The international health regulations......Page 286
Infectious diseases and international trade law......Page 288
Infectious diseases and international human rights law......Page 291
Infectious diseases, war and weapons......Page 293
Infectious diseases and international environmental law......Page 294
Future international legal challenges......Page 295
Conclusion: the concept of global health jurisprudence......Page 297
References......Page 298
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