Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, figures and boxes
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Guide to online instructor resources
- Introduction: The origins and changing agendas of international relations
- Part 1 Theories of International Relations
- Part 2 International history
- Part 3 The traditional agenda: States, wars and law
- Part 4 The new agenda: Globalisation and global challenges
- Chapter 20 Non-state actors: A sociology of International Relations?
- Chapter 21 Religion and secularism
- Chapter 22 Global economic institutions
- Chapter 23 Global trade and finance
- Chapter 24 Global poverty, inequality and development
- Chapter 25 Globalisation and its critics
- Chapter 26 Terrorism
- Chapter 27 The international politics of cyberspace
- Chapter 28 The changing character of warfare
- Chapter 29 Post-conflict state-building
- Chapter 30 Humanitarianism and armed intervention
- Chapter 31 Human rights
- Chapter 32 Global public health
- Chapter 33 Migration and refugees
- Chapter 34 Global environmental politics
- Chapter 35 Climate change
- Chapter 36 The futures of International Relations
- References
- Index
- Figure and text acknowledgements
Chapter 32 - Global public health
from Part 4 - The new agenda: Globalisation and global challenges
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 August 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Tables, figures and boxes
- Contributors
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Guide to online instructor resources
- Introduction: The origins and changing agendas of international relations
- Part 1 Theories of International Relations
- Part 2 International history
- Part 3 The traditional agenda: States, wars and law
- Part 4 The new agenda: Globalisation and global challenges
- Chapter 20 Non-state actors: A sociology of International Relations?
- Chapter 21 Religion and secularism
- Chapter 22 Global economic institutions
- Chapter 23 Global trade and finance
- Chapter 24 Global poverty, inequality and development
- Chapter 25 Globalisation and its critics
- Chapter 26 Terrorism
- Chapter 27 The international politics of cyberspace
- Chapter 28 The changing character of warfare
- Chapter 29 Post-conflict state-building
- Chapter 30 Humanitarianism and armed intervention
- Chapter 31 Human rights
- Chapter 32 Global public health
- Chapter 33 Migration and refugees
- Chapter 34 Global environmental politics
- Chapter 35 Climate change
- Chapter 36 The futures of International Relations
- References
- Index
- Figure and text acknowledgements
Summary
For millennia, health and disease have shaped human society in profound and fundamental ways. While events such as the Justinian Plague and ‘Black Death’ decimated the European populations in the sixth and fourteenth centuries respectively, arresting urban development and impacting the relationship between church and state, the introduction of European and African diseases into Latin America is believed to have caused the deaths of up to 90 per cent of some of the continent’s indigenous populations. Biological weapons used during World War I led to international moratoriums on their use, even as more recent ‘naturally occurring’ events extending from the 2003 SARS outbreak, the 2013–16 West African Ebola outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic have had widespread social, economic and political impacts.
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- An Introduction to International Relations , pp. 427 - 438Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024