International Law and Infectious Diseases is the first comprehensive analysis of the intersection between international law and infectious diseases. Infectious diseases pose a global threat and international law plays an important but under-explored role in infectious disease control. This book analyses the globalization of public health and examines the history of international law in this area.

• Table of Cases


• Table of Treaties, Declarations, and Resolutions


• Introduction


• Re-Emergence of an Old Challenge for the International Community


• Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases


• Globalization of Public Health


• Microbialpolitik


• Conclusion


• Brief History of International Law on the Control of Infectious Diseases


• Introduction


• Overview of International Law on Infectious Disease Control, 1851-1951


• Objectives of International Law on Infectious Disease Control, 1851-1951


• Microbialpolitik-1851-1951


• International health Regulations


• Introduction


• Development


• Legal Basis


• Objectives


• Effectiveness


• WHOs Revision of the IHR


• IHR and Microbialpolitik


• Sources of International Law and Infectious Diseases Control


• Introduction


• Conventions


• Customary International Law


• General Principles of Law


• Judicial Decisions and the Writing of Publicists


• Sources of International Law Outside Article 38(1)


• International Trade Law and Infectious Diseases


• Introduction


• Trade, Quarantine, and Infectious Disease Control


• Development of International Trade Law on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures


• International Trade Law and Microbialpolitik


• International Human Rights Law and Infectious Diseases


• Introduction


• Limiting Human Rights to Protect Public health


• The Human Right to Health and Infectious Disease Control


• HIV/AIDS: Development of a Human Rights Discourse during an Infectious Disease Pandemic


• Conclusion: Human Rights, Infectious Diseases, and Microbialpolitik


• War, Weapons, and Infectious Diseases


• Introduction


• War as Disruption of the Human-Microbe Environment


• International Legal Rules on How Force is Used: Regulating Weapons and Targets


• Coping with the Adverse Public Health Consequences of War


• War Crimes and Public Health


• Conclusion: Microbialpolitik and International Law on Armed Conflict


• International Environmental Law and infectious Diseases


• Introduction


• Environmental Degradation and Infectious Diseases


• International Environmental Law and Infectious Diseases


• International Environmental Law and Microbialpolitik


• Microbialpolitik, International Law, and Global Health Jurisprudence


• Introduction


• Microbialpolitik and International Law


• Microbialpolitik and International Relations Theory


• The Future of International Law in Microbialpolitik


• Conclusion


• Appendix


• Bibliography


• Index

David P. Fidler is Associate Professor at the University of Indiana.