International Law and Infectious Diseases

Subjects:

Medical Law, Public International Law

Contents:

Table of Cases; Table of Treaties, Declarations, and Resolutions; Introduction; Re-Emergence of an Old Challenge for the International Community; Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases; Globalization of Public Health; Microbialpolitik; Conclusion; BRIEF HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ON THE CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Introduction; Overview of International Law on Infectious Disease Control, 1851-1951; Objectives of International Law on Infectious Disease Control, 1851-1951; Microbialpolitik-1851-1951; INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS; Introduction; Development; Legal Basis; Objectives; Effectiveness; WHOs Revision of the IHR; IHR and Microbialpolitik; SOURCES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES CONTROL; Introduction; Conventions; Customary International Law; General Principles of Law; Judicial Decisions and the Writing of Publicists; Sources of International Law Outside Article 38(1); INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Introduction; Trade, Quarantine, and Infectious Disease Control; Development of International Trade Law on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures; International Trade Law and Microbialpolitik; INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Introduction; Limiting Human Rights to Protect Public health; The Human Right to Health and Infectious Disease Control; HIV/AIDS: Development of a Human Rights Discourse during an Infectious Disease Pandemic; Conclusion: Human Rights, Infectious Diseases, and Microbialpolitik; WAR, WEAPONS, AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Introduction; War as Disruption of the Human-Microbe Environment; International Legal Rules on How Force is Used: Regulating Weapons and Targets; Coping with the Adverse Public Health Consequences of War; War Crimes and Public Health; Conclusion: Microbialpolitik and International Law on Armed Conflict; INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Introduction; Environmental Degradation and Infectious Diseases; International Environmental Law and Infectious Diseases; International Environmental Law and Microbialpolitik; MICROBIALPOLITIK, INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND GLOBAL HEALTH JURISPRUDENCE; Introduction; Microbialpolitik and International Law; Microbialpolitik and International Relations Theory; The Future of International Law in Microbialpolitik; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

International Law and Infectious Diseases is the first comprehensive analysis of the intersection between international law and infectious diseases. Infectious diseases pose a global threat, and international law plays an important but under-explored role in infectious disease control. The book analyses the globalization of public health; and it examines the history of international law in this area, the International Health Regulations, and international law on trade, human rights, armed conflict and arms control, and the environment. Fidler develops the concepts of microbialpolitik and global health jurisprudence to provide a political perspective and a framework for future legal action.;The aim of this series of monographs is to publish important and original pieces of research on all aspects of public international law. Topics that are given particular prominence are those, which, while of interest to the academic lawyer, also have important bearing on issues which, touch the actual conduct of international relations. None the less the series is wide in scope and includes monographs on the history and philosophical foundations of international law.