This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security.
Over the past decade, the study of global health and its interconnection with security has become a prominent and rapidly growing field of research. Ongoing debates question whether health and security should be linked; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; what should be done to address health security threats; and the positive and negative consequences of ‘securitizing’ health. In academic and policy terms, the health security field is a timely and dynamic one and this handbook will be the first work comprehensively to address this agenda.
Bringing together the leading experts and commentators on health security issues from across the world, the volume comprises original and cutting-edge essays addressing the key issues in the field and also highlighting currently neglected avenues for future research. The book intends to provide an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the key topics and debates and is organised into four key parts:
* Health Securities: the fundamental conceptual issues, historical links between health and security and the various ways of conceptualising health as a security issue
* Threats: those health issues which have been most frequently discussed in security terms
* Responses: the wide range of contemporary security-driven responses to health threats
* Controversies: the securitization of health, its impact on rights and justice and the potential distortion of the global health agenda
This book will be of great interest to students of global health security, public health, critical security studies, and International Relations in general.

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"This new Handbook presents an overview of cutting-edge research in the growing field of global health security. Over the past decade, the study of global health has become an increasingly mainstream part of the International Relations agenda. Over the same period, scholars working in Public Health have begun to investigate the politics of global public health in more depth than ever before. The coming together of these two scholarly communities has resulted in the creation of a vibrant, cross-disciplinary and rapidly-growing field of research. One of the major themes apparent in this scholarly literature has been an examination of the linkages between security and health. This has been an area of lively debate, with discussions ongoing over the appropriate conceptualisation of health security; which (if any) health issues should be treated as security threats; what should be done to address health security threats; and the positive and negative consequences of securitizing health. In raising these questions, the academic literature has been critically reflecting on an emergent policy discourse in which states and other actors have increasingly been discussing and addressing selected health issues in security terms. Again, this has come from both sides of the health/security divide: security policy communities have added health (especially infectious disease threats) to their remits; and the Public Health community has attempted to leverage securitization in order to gain increased attention and resources for health issues. The health security field is, then, a timely and dynamic one in both academic and policy terms - an area of significant contemporary interest for scholars, students and policy-makers alike. This handbook would be the first work comprehensively to address the health security agenda. Bringing together the leading experts and commentators on health security issues from across the world, the volume comprises original and cutting-edge essays addressing the key issues in the field and also highlighting currently neglected avenues for future research. Aimed at an audience spanning academic researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students and policymakers and professionals, the book is intended to provide an accessible yet sophisticated introduction to the key topics and debates. The book is organized into four sections. Section I addresses some of the fundamental conceptual issues, including the historical links between health and security and the various ways of conceptualising health as a security issue. Section II focuses upon those health issues which have been most frequently discussed in security terms in the academic and policy discourses, in each case identifying the ways in which those issues have been discussed in health security terms, and assessing the evidence for and consequences of addressing them through a security lens. Section III of the book examines the wide range of contemporary security-driven responses to health threats, from state pandemic preparedness programmes to the various global efforts to mitigate health risk. Section IV takes a step back from these discussions, unpacking some of the major controversies which have attended the securitization of health, not least those concerns about its impact on rights and justice, as well as the potential distortion of the global health agenda. The volume will not take a position in the ongoing pro/anti-securitization debate. Rather it deliberately brings in authors from both sides of that debate, and those authors will be given the freedom to take their own position on the issues within their chapters. This book will of great interest to students of global health security, public health, critical security studies, and International Relations in general"-- Provided by publisher

Cover 1
Title 4
Copyright 5
CONTENTS 6
List of tables and figures 9
Notes on contributors 10
Introduction 18
PART I Health securities 22
1 The many meanings of health security 24
2 Inventing global health security, 1994–2005 35
3 Health and human security: Pathways to advancing a human-centered approach to health security in East Asia 49
4 Gender, health, and security 65
5 The politics of health security 77
6 The medicalization of insecurity 88
PART II Threats 98
7 Pandemics and security 100
8 Emerging infections: Threats to health and economic security 109
9 AIDS as a security threat: The emergence and the decline of an idea 122
10 Biological weapons and bioterrorism 135
11 Life science research as a security risk 147
12 Conflict, instability, and health security 158
13 Health security and environmental change 168
14 Malaria and security: More than a matter of health 180
15 Noncommunicable disease as a security issue 192
PART III Responses 204
16 Health, security, and diplomacy in historical perspective 206
17 Preparedness and resilience in public health emergencies 218
18 Medical countermeasures and security 232
19 Internet surveillance and disease outbreaks 243
20 Making the international health regulations matter: Promoting compliance through effective dispute resolution 256
21 Biosecurity education for life scientists: The missing past, inadequate present, and uncertain future 269
22 Health security and foreign policy 282
23 NGOs and health security: Securing the health of people living with HIV/AIDS 294
PART IV Controversies 308
24 Health security and/or human rights? 310
25 Reevaluating health security from a cosmopolitan perspective 321
26 Indonesia, power asymmetry, and pandemic risk: The paradox of global health security 335
27 Health security and the distortion of the global health agenda 345
28 Whose interests is the securitization of health serving? 356
Select bibliography 366
Index 372

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