Managing global health security : the World Health Organization and disease outbreak control / Adam Kamradt-Scott, Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney, Australia.

  • Kamradt-Scott, Adam, 1974-
Date:
2015
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Publication/Creation

Basingstoke Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Physical description

xi, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.

Contents

The legal basis for the WHO's global health security mandate and authority -- The WHO's classical approach to disease eradication -- Securitization and SARS : a new framing? -- New powers for a new age? : revising and updating the IHR -- Pandemic influenza : 'the most feared security threat' -- Global health security and its discontents.

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ISBN

  • 9780230369313
  • 0230369316
  • 1137520167 (electronic bk.)
  • 9781137520166 (electronic bk.)