Globalization and Health [Paperback]

Its a clich? to say that diseases do not respect national borders, but the realities of this aphorism present serious and significant challenges to the global community. Health and disease are intimately connected with the movement of people, goods, and ideas that are emblematic of globalization. This book examines the various dimensions of the intersections between globalization and health, calling attention to the challenges these relationships present and the opportunities for cross-border collaboration and solidarity.Jeremy Youde is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and professor of political science at the University of Minnesota Duluth and an internationally recognized expert on global health politics. His publications include The Routledge Handbook of Global Health Security, Global Health Governance, Biopolitical Surveillance and Public Health in International Politics, and Global Health Governance in International Society. He is also chair of the Global Health Section of the International Studies Association.

Globalization is seen by many as an engine of growth, but in this outstanding book Youde (Univ. of Minnesota Duluth) acknowledges that it has also created significant health disparities. He examines the challenges posed by a globalized health system, including the temptation to neglect the role of gender or environmental degradation in health issues. Globalizationinvolving the collapse of time, space, and even national sovereigntyactually challenges global health and its governance. For example, Youde cites the case of SARS: little time was needed to spread the disease from China to Canada. Yet while global health institutions such as the WHO quickly contained the outbreak, Chinas early reluctance to acknowledge or share information about it was credited to its sense that global health institutions challenged its national sovereignty. Likewise in 2006, when Indonesia refused to share samples of H5N1 influenza virus, it did so on grounds of natilór