Health as International Politics
Subtitle: Combating Communicable Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9781351156684
Subjects: Communicable diseases; Maladies infectieuses
Description: "In recent years, health has become a pressing issue in international politics - a development which has been reflected in the growth of academic literature on the subject. The emergence of new (and re-emergence of old) infectious diseases since the early 1990s has attracted scholarly interest from various fields of investigation. At the same time, in a European context, the dramatic rise in tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in some former East Bloc countries has been a cause of particular concern. This timely work provides a detailed account of how the states around the Baltic Sea have met the challenge of communicable diseases and used health issues as an instrument in their foreign policy more widely."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction  -- Geir Hønneland Lars Rowe; title: chapter 2 Establishment and Organisation of the Task Force  -- Geir Hønneland Lars Rowe; title: chapter 3 Western vs. Post-Soviet Medicine  -- Geir Hønneland Lars Rowe; title: chapter 4 Impact in the Post-Soviet Area  -- Geir Hønneland Lars Rowe; title: chapter 5 Conclusions -- Geir Hønneland Lars Rowe.