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Containing Contagion - The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia (Paperback)
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Containing Contagion - The Politics of Disease Outbreaks in Southeast Asia (Paperback)
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Do states have a duty to prevent infectious disease outbreaks from
spreading beyond their borders? The fields of global health and
international relations are increasingly concerned with the
responsibilities of nations to respond to disease outbreaks in a
way that safeguards their neighbors as well as the broader
international community. In Containing Contagion, Sara E. Davies
focuses on one of the world's most pivotal (and riskiest) regions
in the field of global health-Southeast Asia, which in recent years
has responded to a wave of emerging and endemic infectious disease
outbreaks ranging from Nipah, SARS, and avian flu to dengue and
Japanese encephalitis. Between 2005 and 2010, Davies explains,
Southeast Asian states, despite having vastly different health
system capacities and political systems, repeatedly committed to
pursue a collective approach to the communication of outbreaks.
Davies draws on newly gathered data and extensive field interviews
to explore how these states implemented the revised International
Health Regulations (IHR) through the deliberate alignment of
political interests and regional cooperation. Examining why these
Southeast Asian states adopted a collective approach, Davies also
describes the complications that ensued and traces the consequences
of this approach. The first book to explore what problems exist in
the relationship between international relations and health,
Containing Contagion frames contrasting views of global health
agency within the current crises that are facing global health.
Providing an immediate, contemporary example of a region networking
its response to disease outbreak events, this insightful book will
appeal to global health governance scholars, students, and
practitioners.
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