Description
Protecting and promoting health is inherently a political endeavor that requires a sophisticated understanding of the distribution and use of power. Yet while the global nature of health is widely recognized, its political nature is less well understood. In recent decades, the interdisciplinary field of global health politics has emerged to demonstrate the interconnections of health and core political topics, including foreign and security policy, trade, economics, and development. Today a growing body of scholarship examines how the global health landscape has both shaped and been shaped by political actors and structures.The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics provides an authoritative overview and assessment of research on this important and complicated subject. The volume is motivated by two arguments. First, health is not simply a technical subject, requiring evidence-based solutions to real-world problems, but an arena of political contestation where norms, values, and interests also compete and collide. Second, globalization has fundamentally changed the nature of health politics in terms of the ideas, interests, and institutions involved.The volume comprises more than 30 chapters by leading experts in global health and politics. Each chaper provides an overview of the state of the art on a given theoretical perspective, major actor, or global health issue. The Handbook offers both an excellent introduction to scholars new to the field and also an invaluable teaching and research resource for experts seeking to understand global health politics and its future directions.
Table of Contents
ForewordPeter Piot1. Global Health Politics: An IntroductionColin McInnes, Kelley Lee, and Jeremy YoudePart I: From International to Global Health2. The History of International Health: Medicine, Politics, and Two Socio-Medical Perspectives, 1851 to 2000Marcos Cueto3. Globalization and the Politics of Global HealthMatthew Sparke4. The Politics of Global Health Inequalities: Approaches to Studying the Role of PowerYusra Ribhi Shawar and Jennifer Prah Ruger5. Critical Approaches to Global HealthAlan IngramPart II: Global Health and the Wider Policy Agenda6. Global Health DiplomacyAkram Khazatzadeh-Mahani, Arne Ruckert, and Ronald Labonte 7. Security and HealthSimon Rushton8. Global Health and Human SecurityRobert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Jeffrey A. Griffin 9. Critical Security Studies and Global HealthJoão Nunes 10. Biosecurity and the Risk to Global HealthChristian Enemark11. Military Assistance during Health EmergenciesAdam Kamradt-Scott and Frank Smith 12. Global Health and International DevelopmentAndrew Harmer and Jonathan Kennedy13. The Politics of Gender and Global HealthSarah Hawkes and Kent BusePart III: Global Health Governance14. Global Health GovernanceColin McInnes15. The State and Global HealthTed Schrecker16. Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance: The Case of BRICS CountriesYanzhong Huang17. The Politics of Global Health Agenda SettingStephanie L. Smith and Jeremy Shiffman 18. The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global HealthTine Hanrieder19. Civil Society and Global HealthDavid McCoy and Joseph Gafton20. The Role of the Business Sector in Global Health PoliticsKelley Lee and Julia Smith21. Philanthropy in Global HealthJeremy Youde22. Trade and Investment Agreements and the Global Politics of HealthChris Holden and Benjamin Hawkins23. The Global Politics of Health Care ReformSolomon Benatar, David Sanders, and Stephen Gill24. Towards a Critical Political Economy of Global HealthTed SchreckerPart IV: Issues in Global Health Politics25. The Human Right to Health and Global Health PoliticsGorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds26. Reporting Disease Outbreaks in a World with No Digital BordersSara E. Davies27. The Politics of Pandemic Influenza PreparednessAdam Kamradt-Scott28. The Global Politics of HIV and AIDSAlan Whiteside29. The Global Politics of Neglected Tropical DiseasesObijiofor Aginam30. The Politics of Global Vaccination PoliciesStuart Blume31. The Global Politics of Access to Medicines: From 1.0 to 2.0Suerie Moon and Ellen 't Hoen32. Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health PoliticsRoger Magnusson33. The Politics of Global Tobacco ControlKelley Lee34. The Politics of Global Bioethical FrameworksDiego S. Silva and Jeremy Snyder
