Ethics and security aspects of infectious disease control : interdisciplinary perspectives / edited by Christian Enemark and Michael J. Selgelid.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 uniqu.

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 The Concept of Security; 2 The Value of Security: A Moderate Pluralist Perspective; 3 Hiv/Aids, Security and Ethics; 4 Filth and Failure: The Security Politics of Cholera; 5 Securitizing Epidemics: Three Lessons from History; 6 The Disappearing Act of Global Health Security; 7 Extending Ethical Justification for Public Health Surveillance to Situation Awareness.

8 Electronic Surveillance for Communicable Disease Prevention and Control: Health Protection or a Threat to Privacy and Autonomy?9 Ethics of Research in Epidemic Response; 10 Media Ethics and Infectious Disease; 11 Ethics and Indigeneity in Responding to Pandemic Influenza: Māori Values in New Zealand's Emergency Planning; 12 Governance, Rights and Pandemics: Science, Public Health or Individual Rights?; Index.

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