Disease Diplomacy: International Norms and Global Health Security

by Adam Kamradt-Scott, Simon Rushton, Sara E. Davies

Have the revised International Health Regulations allowed states to rise to the challenge of delivering global health security?

In the age of air travel and globalized trade, pathogens that once took months or even years to spread beyond their regions of origin can now circumnavigate the globe in a matter of hours. Amid growing concerns about such epidemics as Ebola, SARS, MERS, and H1N1, disease diplomacy has emerged as a key foreign...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421416484
• ISBN13: 9781421416489
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"