The governance of disease outbreaks : : international health law : lessons from the Ebola crisis and beyond / / Leonie Vierck, Pedro A. Villareal, A. Katarina Weilert (editors).

• Author: Weilert, A. Katarina
• TeilnehmendeR: Vierck, Leonie, 1982-; Villarreal Lizárraga, Pedro A.,; Weilert, A. Katarina,
• Place / Publishing House: Baden-Baden, Germany : : Nomos,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (393 pages) :; illustrations, map
• Notes: International conference proceedings.

"This edited volume is directed at experts in international law, practitioners in international institutions, and other experts who would like to familiarize themselves with the legal framework of infectious disease governance. Using the West African Ebola crisis as a case study, this book is part of a larger collaborative project on international health governance. Project partners are the Forschungsstatte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft e.V. - Institute for Interdisciplinary Research and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (MPIL). The authors explain the context and substantive legal framework of the Ebola crisis, while also highlighting its human rights aspects, institutional law (such as the debate on the securitization of health), and the limits to a purely legal approach to the subject. The authors are experts in public international law, public health, political science, and anthropology."--Google Books.

Table of Contents

The concept of the book / Leonie Vierck, Pedro A. Villarreal, and A. Katarina Weilert -- Ebola epidemic 2014-2015: taking control or being trapped in the logic of failure: what lessons can be learned? / Michael Marx -- The response to the West African Ebola outbreak (2014-2016): a failure of global health governance? / Wolfgang Hein -- The changing structure of global health governance / Mateja Steinbrück Platise -- The case law of international public health and why its scarcity is a problem / Leonie Vierck -- The right to health in international law : normative foundations and doctrinal flaws / A. Katarina Weilert -- Extraterritorial human rights obligations of states in the event of disease outbreaks / Elif Askin -- The real versus the ideal in NGO governance: enacting the right to mental healthcare in Liberia during the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic / Hunter Keys, Bonnie Kaiser, André den Exter -- The World Health Organization's governance framework in disease outbreaks: a legal perspective / Pedro A. Villarreal -- Fostering regional health governance in West Africa: the role of the WAHO / Edefe Ojomo -- Ebola and securitization of health: UN Security Council Resolution 2177/2014 and its limits / Ilja Richard Pavone -- Combining the WHO's international health regulations (2005) with the UN Security Council's powers: does it make sense for health governance? / Robert Frau -- The limits of the international health regulations: Ebola governance, regulatory breach, and the non-negotiable necessity of national healthcare / Susan L. Erikson -- The governance of infectious diseases. an international relations perspective / Christian R. Thauer.