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Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security
Sara E. Davies
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Description for Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security
Paperback. The book will be of great interest to academic researchers, postgraduate students, and advanced undergraduates in the fields of global public health, international relations, and public policy, as well as health professionals, diplomats, and practitioners with a professional interest in global health security. Num Pages: 192 pages, 2, 2 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JPS; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 270.
In the age of air travel and globalized trade, pathogens that once took months or even years to spread beyond their regions of origin can now circumnavigate the globe in a matter of hours. Amid growing concerns about such epidemics as Ebola, SARS, MERS, and H1N1, disease diplomacy has emerged as a key foreign and security policy concern as countries work to collectively strengthen the global systems of disease surveillance and control. The revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR), eventually adopted by the World Health Organization's member states in 2005, was the foremost manifestation of this novel diplomacy ... Read more
In the age of air travel and globalized trade, pathogens that once took months or even years to spread beyond their regions of origin can now circumnavigate the globe in a matter of hours. Amid growing concerns about such epidemics as Ebola, SARS, MERS, and H1N1, disease diplomacy has emerged as a key foreign and security policy concern as countries work to collectively strengthen the global systems of disease surveillance and control. The revision of the International Health Regulations (IHR), eventually adopted by the World Health Organization's member states in 2005, was the foremost manifestation of this novel diplomacy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
274g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421416489
SKU
V9781421416489
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About Sara E. Davies
Sara E. Davies is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at Queensland University of Technology's Australian Centre for Health Law Research. She is the program director of the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities Program at the University of Queensland's Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. Adam Kamradt-Scott is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney's Centre for ... Read more
Reviews for Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security
A notable new entry into the scholarly field... This book will surely become one of the key texts in the growing field of health diplomacy studies: a position it rightly deserves.
Nataliya Smyhora E-International Relations Undoubtedly a significant addition to the literature of global health.
William Hatchett Environmental Health News ... The book serves as a strategic resource ... Read more
Nataliya Smyhora E-International Relations Undoubtedly a significant addition to the literature of global health.
William Hatchett Environmental Health News ... The book serves as a strategic resource ... Read more