The Resource Security and public health : pandemics and politics in the contemporary world, Simon Rushton
Security and public health : pandemics and politics in the contemporary world, Simon Rushton
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The item Security and public health : pandemics and politics in the contemporary world, Simon Rushton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "For most Western governments, defending against the threat of infectious disease is now an accepted security priority. Deciding what resources and policies to put in place to protect populations from pandemics, however, involves difficult political choices. How can we get these decisions right? And what are we prepared to sacrifice to achieve better health security? In this book, Simon Rushton explores the politics of pandemics in the contemporary world. Looking back over three decades of public health, he traces national and international efforts to tackle infectious disease, focusing in-depth on three core areas in which securitization has been particularly successful: rapidly spreading pandemic diseases, HIV/AIDS and man-made pathogenic threats, such as biological weapons. Three central problems raised by common responses to disease as a security threat are then examined: the impact upon individuals and civil liberties; the tendency to treat the symptoms and not the underlying causes of disease outbreaks; and the limited range of diseases deemed worthy of global attention and action. Arguing against a tendency to treat global health security as a technical challenge, the book stresses the need for a vibrant, and even confrontational, political engagement around the implications of securitizing public health"--Publisher's description
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 229 pages)
- Contents
-
- Introduction : disease and security in historical perspective
- Pandemics and global health security
- AIDS : a positive case of securization?
- Science, risk and uncertainty
- Disease, human rights and security responses
- Global inequalities and differential disease risks
- Everyday insecurities, health priorities and global agendas
- Conclusion : towards a pro-health politics
- Isbn
- 9781509515929
- Label
- Security and public health : pandemics and politics in the contemporary world
- Title
- Security and public health
- Title remainder
- pandemics and politics in the contemporary world
- Statement of responsibility
- Simon Rushton
- Subject
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- Global Health
- Global Health
- Medical policy
- Medical policy
- Medical policy
- National security
- National security
- National security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
- Communicable Disease Control
- Pandemics -- prevention & control
- Politics
- Politics
- Public health -- International cooperation
- Public health -- International cooperation
- Public health -- International cooperation
- World health
- World health
- World health
- Pandemics -- prevention & control
- Communicable Disease Control
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "For most Western governments, defending against the threat of infectious disease is now an accepted security priority. Deciding what resources and policies to put in place to protect populations from pandemics, however, involves difficult political choices. How can we get these decisions right? And what are we prepared to sacrifice to achieve better health security? In this book, Simon Rushton explores the politics of pandemics in the contemporary world. Looking back over three decades of public health, he traces national and international efforts to tackle infectious disease, focusing in-depth on three core areas in which securitization has been particularly successful: rapidly spreading pandemic diseases, HIV/AIDS and man-made pathogenic threats, such as biological weapons. Three central problems raised by common responses to disease as a security threat are then examined: the impact upon individuals and civil liberties; the tendency to treat the symptoms and not the underlying causes of disease outbreaks; and the limited range of diseases deemed worthy of global attention and action. Arguing against a tendency to treat global health security as a technical challenge, the book stresses the need for a vibrant, and even confrontational, political engagement around the implications of securitizing public health"--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rushton, Simon
- Dewey number
- 362.1969/8
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA566.27
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- WA 110
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Medical policy
- National security
- Public health
- World health
- Pandemics
- Communicable Disease Control
- Politics
- Global Health
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
- Medical policy
- National security
- Public health
- World health
- Label
- Security and public health : pandemics and politics in the contemporary world, Simon Rushton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : disease and security in historical perspective -- Pandemics and global health security -- AIDS : a positive case of securization? -- Science, risk and uncertainty -- Disease, human rights and security responses -- Global inequalities and differential disease risks -- Everyday insecurities, health priorities and global agendas -- Conclusion : towards a pro-health politics
- Control code
- 1061865665
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 229 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781509515929
- Lccn
- 2018053158
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1061865665
- Label
- Security and public health : pandemics and politics in the contemporary world, Simon Rushton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction : disease and security in historical perspective -- Pandemics and global health security -- AIDS : a positive case of securization? -- Science, risk and uncertainty -- Disease, human rights and security responses -- Global inequalities and differential disease risks -- Everyday insecurities, health priorities and global agendas -- Conclusion : towards a pro-health politics
- Control code
- 1061865665
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vii, 229 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781509515929
- Lccn
- 2018053158
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1061865665
Subject
- Global Health
- Global Health
- Medical policy
- Medical policy
- Medical policy
- National security
- National security
- National security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare
- Communicable Disease Control
- Pandemics -- prevention & control
- Politics
- Politics
- Public health -- International cooperation
- Public health -- International cooperation
- Public health -- International cooperation
- World health
- World health
- World health
- Pandemics -- prevention & control
- Communicable Disease Control
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