Virus alert : security, governmentality, and the AIDS pandemic /

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Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat. The securitization of HIV/AIDS not only...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elbe, Stefan, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Security, International.
National security.
AIDS (Disease) > Political aspects.
Sida > Aspect politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Viruses, health, and international security
  • A noble lie? Examining the evidence on AIDS and security
  • Security in the era of governmentality : AIDS and the rise of health security
  • National security : sovereignty, medicine and the securitization of AIDS
  • Human security : discipline, healthy bodies, and the global curing machine
  • Risk and security : government, military risk groups, and population triage
  • The power of AIDS : responding to the governmentalization of security.

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