Global Health and Security

Taylor & Francis

Global Health and SecurityCritical Feminist Perspectives\nAuthor(s): Colleen O'Manique, Pieter Fourie\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138677364, 978-1138677364\nSynopsis\nThe past decade has witnessed a significant increase in the construction of health as a security issue by national governments and multilateral organizations. This book provides the first critical, feminist analysis of the flesh-and-blood impacts of the securitization of health on different bodies, while broadening the scope of what we understand as global health security.\n\nIt looks at how feminist perspectives on health and security can lead to different questions about health and in/security, problematizing some of the common sense assumptions that underlie much of the discourse in this area. It considers the norms, ideologies, and vested interests that frame specific threats to health and policy responses, while exposing how the current go.