Full Description
The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the world, has given rise to an important global debate. The actual or potential burden of infectious diseases is sometimes so great that governments treat them as threats to national security. However, such treatment potentially increases the risk that emergency disease-control measures will be ineffective, counterproductive and/or unjust. Research on ethical issues associated with infectious disease is a relatively new and rapidly growing area of academic inquiry, as is research on infectious diseases within the field of security studies. This volume incorporates ethical and security perspectives, thus furthering research in both fields. Its unique focus on the intersection of ethical and security dimensions will, furthermore, generate fresh insights on how governments should respond to infectious disease challenges. Readers should include professionals and scholars working in infectious disease, epidemiology, public health, health law, health economics, public policy, bioethics, medical humanities, health and human rights, social/political philosophy, security studies, and international politics.
Contents
Introduction, Christian Enemark, Michael J. Selgelid; Chapter 1 The Concept of Security, Jonathan Herington; Chapter 2 The Value of Security, Michael J. Selgelid; Chapter 3 HIV/AIDS, Security and Ethics, Michael J. Selgelid, Christian Enemark; Chapter 4 Filth and Failure, Christian Enemark; Chapter 5 Securitizing Epidemics, Stefan Elbe; Chapter 6 The Disappearing Act of Global Health Security, Niamh Stephenson; Chapter 7 Extending Ethical Justification for Public Health Surveillance to Situation Awareness, Lisa M. Lee; Chapter 8 Electronic Surveillance for Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Gwendolyn L. Gilbert; Chapter 9 Ethics of Research in Epidemic Response, Andreas Alois Reis; Chapter 10 Media Ethics and Infectious Disease, Claire Hooker Julie Leask, Catherine King; Chapter 11 Ethics and Indigeneity in Responding to Pandemic Influenza, Louise Delany; Chapter 12 Governance, Rights and Pandemics, Terry Carney;
