The politics of global health governance : united by contagion /

Zacher, Mark W.

The politics of global health governance : united by contagion / Mark W. Zacher and Tania J. Keefe - First Palgrave Macmillan paperback edition: September 2011. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 - xiv, 256 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-234) and index.

Overview of infectious diseases and analytical framework -- Global health governance in the twentieth century -- Disease containment : surveillance systems, emergency responses, and transborder regulations -- Disease control : transformation of health assistance programs -- Disease cures : international patent law and access to essential medicines -- Health and global governance : concluding perspectives.

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medicine--diseases
health--cooperation--globalization

world health