1st Edition

Health as International Politics Combating Communicable Diseases in the Baltic Sea Region

By Geir Hønneland Copyright 2004
129 Pages
by Routledge

129 Pages
by Routledge

129 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Establishment and organization of the Task Force; Western vs. post-Soviet medicine; Impact in the post-Soviet area; Conclusions; Appendix I: list of interviewees; References; Index.

Biography

Nana K. Poku (Series edited by) , Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. (Series edited by) , Geir Honneland (Author) , Lars Rowe (Author)