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."
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