The Politics of Emerging and Resurgent Infectious Diseases

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Political Processes and Infectious Diseases

   • Jim Whitman

   Pages 1-14

3. Poverty, Development, Population Movements and Health

   • Manuel Carballo

   Pages 15-38

4. Case Studies of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Cities: Emerging Factors and Policy Issues

   • Debarati Guha-Sapir

   Pages 39-61

5. The Role of International Law in the Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases

   • David P. Fidler

   Pages 62-85

6. The Political Causes and Solutions of the Current Tuberculosis Epidemic

   • Kraig Klaudt

   Pages 86-109

7. Refugees and Migrants

   • Michael J. Toole

   Pages 110-129

8. The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Public Policies and Possessive Individualism

   • Renée Danziger

   Pages 130-146

9. Technological Change and Future Biological Warfare

   • Malcolm Dando

   Pages 147-169

10. Non-Medical Aspects of Emerging and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases: Maximum Protection with Minimal Disruption

    • David Heymann

    Pages 170-177

11. Challenges to the World Health Organization

    • Yves Beigbeder

    Pages 178-199

12. Knowledge, Information and Intergovernmental Cooperation

    • Donald A. Henderson

    Pages 200-212

13. Surveillance, Eradication and Control: Successes and Failures

    • William Foege

    Pages 213-219

14. Back Matter

    Pages 220-223

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HIV/AIDS is but one of a number of new and deadly diseases which threaten communities throughout the world. Together with the resurgence of diseases once thought to have been 'conquered', the human costs and social implications have begun to engage a diverse range of practitioners and scholars. The premise behind this collection of distinguished essays in that the causal relations, impacts and consequences of this disturbing trend are as much political as medical or scientific. This book is an excellent introduction to a field of growing importance.

• AIDS
• emerging infectious
• emerging infectious disease
• government
• health
• HIV
• infectious
• infectious disease
• infectious diseases
• Policy

• Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK

  Jim Whitman

JIM WHITMAN is a member of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Cambridge University. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Humanitarian Assistance and general editor of the Macmillan Global Issues series.

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