Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics

Protecting and promoting health is inherently a political endeavor that requires a sophisticated understanding of the distribution and use of power. Yet while the global nature of health is widely recognized, its political nature is less well understood. In recent decades, the interdisciplinary field of global health politics has emerged to demonstrate the interconnections of health and core political topics, including foreign and security policy, trade, economics, and development. Today a growing body of scholarship examines how the global health landscape has both shaped and been shaped by political actors and structures. The Oxford Handbook of Global Health Politics provides an authoritative overview and assessment of research on this important and complicated subject. The volume is motivated by two arguments. First, health is not simply a technical subject, requiring evidence-based solutions to real-world problems, but an arena of political contestation where norms, values, and interests also compete and collide. Second, globalization has fundamentally changed the nature of health politics in terms of the ideas, interests, and institutions involved. The volume comprises more than 30 chapters by leading experts in global health and politics. Each chaper provides an overview of the state of the art on a given theoretical perspective, major actor, or global health issue. The Handbook offers both an excellent introduction to scholars new to the field and also an invaluable teaching and research resource for experts seeking to understand global health politics and its future directions.

Colin McInnes is Professor of International Politics in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University.
Kelley Lee is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University.
Jeremy Youde is Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

- Foreword
- Peter Piot
- 1. Global Health Politics: An Introduction
- Colin McInnes, Kelley Lee, and Jeremy Youde
- Part I: From International to Global Health
- 2. The History of International Health: Medicine, Politics, and Two Socio-Medical Perspectives, 1851 to 2000
- Marcos Cueto
- 3. Globalization and the Politics of Global Health
- Matthew Sparke
- 4. The Politics of Global Health Inequalities: Approaches to Studying the Role of Power
- Yusra Ribhi Shawar and Jennifer Prah Ruger
- 5. Critical Approaches to Global Health
- Alan Ingram
- Part II: Global Health and the Wider Policy Agenda
- 6. Global Health Diplomacy
- Akram Khazatzadeh-Mahani, Arne Ruckert, and Ronald Labonte
- 7. Security and Health
- Simon Rushton
- 8. Global Health and Human Security
- Robert L. Ostergard, Jr. and Jeffrey A. Griffin
- 9. Critical Security Studies and Global Health
- João Nunes
- 10. Biosecurity and the Risk to Global Health
- Christian Enemark
- 11. Military Assistance during Health Emergencies
- Adam Kamradt-Scott and Frank Smith
- 12. Global Health and International Development
- Andrew Harmer and Jonathan Kennedy
- 13. The Politics of Gender and Global Health
- Sarah Hawkes and Kent Buse
- Part III: Global Health Governance
- 14. Global Health Governance
- Colin McInnes
- 15. The State and Global Health
- Ted Schrecker
- 16. Emerging Powers and Global Health Governance: The Case of BRICS Countries
- Yanzhong Huang
- 17. The Politics of Global Health Agenda Setting
- Stephanie L. Smith and Jeremy Shiffman
- 18. The Politics of Intergovernmental Organizations in Global Health
- Tine Hanrieder
- 19. Civil Society and Global Health
- David McCoy and Joseph Gafton
- 20. The Role of the Business Sector in Global Health Politics
- Kelley Lee and Julia Smith
- 21. Philanthropy in Global Health
- Jeremy Youde
- 22. Trade and Investment Agreements and the Global Politics of Health
- Chris Holden and Benjamin Hawkins
- 23. The Global Politics of Health Care Reform
- Solomon Benatar, David Sanders, and Stephen Gill
- 24. Towards a Critical Political Economy of Global Health
- Ted Schrecker
- Part IV: Issues in Global Health Politics
- 25. The Human Right to Health and Global Health Politics
- Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds
- 26. Reporting Disease Outbreaks in a World with No Digital Borders
- Sara E. Davies
- 27. The Politics of Pandemic Influenza Preparedness
- Adam Kamradt-Scott
- 28. The Global Politics of HIV and AIDS
- Alan Whiteside
- 29. The Global Politics of Neglected Tropical Diseases
- Obijiofor Aginam
- 30. The Politics of Global Vaccination Policies
- Stuart Blume
- 31. The Global Politics of Access to Medicines: From 1.0 to 2.0
- Suerie Moon and Ellen 't Hoen
- 32. Non-Communicable Diseases and Global Health Politics
- Roger Magnusson
- 33. The Politics of Global Tobacco Control
- Kelley Lee
- 34. The Politics of Global Bioethical Frameworks
- Diego S. Silva and Jeremy Snyder