Securing Health

This book is a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease in security terms.

Suzanne Hindmarch is Assistant Professor of political science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

1. Introduction: HIV and securitization as a transformative strategy in global health 2. Securitization as a policy process 3. Africa, HIV and security: the discursive context of threat construction in securitization 4. Speech acts, framing contests, and strategic action in HIV securitization 5 When urgency meets bureaucracy: boundary work in HIV and security policy implementation 6. Through the looking glass: the production of HIV and security knowledge 7. The limits of 'securing' health through securitization 8. Conclusion