The Politics of Emerging and Resurgent Infectious Diseases

YVES BEIGBEDER Adjunct Professor, Webster University, Geneva MANUEL CARBALLO Coordinator of the International Centre for Migration and Health, Geneva MALCOLM DANDO Professor of International Security, School of Peace Studies, Bradford University RENAeE DANZIGER Lecturer in Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine DAVID P. FIDLER Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law WILLIAM H. FOEGE Executive Director of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development DEBARATI GUHA-SAPIR Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Louvain DONALD A. HENDERSON Dean and Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health DAVID L. HEYMANN Director, Division of Emerging and other Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, World Health Organisation KRAIG KLAUDT Director, World Health Organisation's Global TB Programme, Geneva MICHAEL J. TOOLE Coordinator, International Health Unit, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research

HIV/AIDS is but one of a number of new and deadly diseases which threaten communities throughout the world. Together with the resurgence of diseases once thought to have been 'conquered', the human costs and social implications have begun to engage a diverse range of practitioners and scholars.HIV/AIDS is but one of a number of new and deadly diseases which threaten communities throughout the world. Together with the resurgence of diseases once thought to have been 'conquered', the human costs and social implications have begun to engage a diverse range of practitioners and scholars. The premise behind this collection of distinguished essays in that the causal relations, impacts and consequences of this disturbing trend are as much political as medical or scientific. This book is an excellent introduction to a field of growing importance.