Virus Alert : : Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic /

Virus Alert : : Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic / / Stefan Elbe.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Elbe, Stefan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 3 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Viruses, Health, and International Security
  • 2. A Noble Lie? Examining the Evidence on AIDS and Security
  • 3. Security in the Era of Governmentality: AIDS and the Rise of Health Security
  • 4. National Security: Sovereignty, Medicine, and the Securitization of AIDS
  • 5. Human Security: Discipline, Healthy Bodies, and the Global Curing Machine
  • 6. Risk and Security: Government, Military Risk Groups, and Population Triage
  • 7. The Power of AIDS: Responding to the Governmentalization of Security
  • References
  • Index

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