Epidemics know no borders and are often characterized by a high level of uncertainty, causing major challenges in risk governance. The author shows the emergence of global risk governance processes and the key role that the World Health Organization (WHO) plays within them.
This book explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease from the nineteenth to present day. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of international relations, bringing toge…
The threat of global pandemic disease is currently mobilizing experts, governments, and the exploding industry in 'security'; and yet this has all happened before. Medicine at the Border explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease in the nineteenth, twe…
The threat of global pandemic disease is currently mobilizing experts, governments, and the exploding industry in 'security'; and yet, this has all happened before. Medicine at the Border explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease in the nineteenth, tw…
Medicine at the Border explores the pressing issues of border control and infectious disease in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book places world health in world history, microbes and their management in globalization, and disease in the history of inte…
This book addresses all the key issues of global health at a level that is basic enough for undergraduate students from a variety of majors and backgrounds.
Introduction to global health
Introduction to Global Health is a comprehensive look at today's most critical global health concerns and the actions that people around the world are taking to solve public health problems and to promote health and wellbeing. The third edition of Introduction to Global Health h…