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.
Introduction, Jeremy Youde and Simon Rushton Part I: Health Securities
1. The Many Meanings of Health Security, Colin McInnes
2. Inventing Global
Health Security, 1994-2005, Lorna Weir
3. Health and Human Security: Pathways
to Advancing a Human-centred Approach to Health Security in East Asia, Mely
Caballero-Anthony & Gianna Gayle Amul
4. Gender, Health and Security, Colleen
OManique
5. The Politics of Health Security, Joćo Nunes
6. The
Medicalization of Insecurity, Stefan Elbe and Nadine Voelkner Part II:
Threats
7. Pandemics and Security, Yanzhong Huang
8. Emerging Infections:
Threats to Health and Economic Security, David L. Heymann and Alison West
9.
AIDS as a Security Threat: The Emergence and the Decline of an Idea, Pieter
Fourie
10. Biological Weapons and Bioterrorism, Gregory D. Koblentz
11. Life
Science Research as a Security Risk, Christian Enemark
12. Conflict,
Instability and Health Security, Frank L. Smith III
13. Health Security and
Environmental Change, Robert L. Ostergard Jr. and Derek Kauneckis
14. Malaria
and Security: More than a Matter of Health, Nicholas Knowlton
15.
Noncommunicable Disease as a Security Issue, Christopher Benson and Sara M.
Glasgow Part III: Responses
16. Health, Security and Diplomacy in Historical
Perspective, Adam Kamradt-Scott
17. Preparedness and Resilience in Public
Health Emergencies, Rebecca Katz and Erin Sorrell
18. Medical Countermeasures
and Security, Kendall Hoyt
19. Internet Surveillance and Disease Outbreaks,
Sara E. Davies
20. Making the International Health Regulations Matter:
Promoting Compliance through Effective Dispute Resolution, Steven J. Hoffman
21. Biosecurity Education for Life Scientists: The Missing Past, Inadequate
Present and Uncertain Future, Malcolm Dando
22. Health Security and Foreign
Policy, Joshua Michaud
23. NGOs and Health Security: Securing the Health of
People Living with HIV/AIDS, Amy S. Patterson Part IV: Controversies
24.
Health Security and/or Human Rights?, Joseph J. Amon
25. Re-evaluating Health
Security from a Cosmopolitan Perspective, Garrett Wallace Brown and Preslava
Stoeva
26. Indonesia, Power Asymmetry, and Pandemic risk: The Paradox of
Global Health Security, William L. Aldis and Triono Soendoro
27. Health
Security and the Distortion of the Global Health Agenda, Michael A. Stevenson
and Michael Moran
28. Whose Interests is the Securitization of Health
Serving?, Debra L. DeLaet
Simon Rushton is a Faculty Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is editor of the journal Medicine, Conflict & Survival and an Associate Fellow of the Centre on Global Health Security at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House.
Jeremy Youde is a Fellow/Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He is author of three books on global health issues and on the editorial board of the journal Global Health Governance.