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International Law and Infectious Diseases
David P. Fidler
Oxford 1999
International law plays an important but under-explored role in infectious disease control. Laws dealing with infectious diseases have implications on a number of important areas in international law including trade law, human rights law, environmental law and the law of war. International Law and Infectious Diseases, by David Fidler, is one of the first attempts to bring together the major legal issues concerning infectious diseases into book form. Fidler devotes a chapter to each area of convergence of international jurisprudence and infectious diseases that he identifies. Each chapter can be read alone or as a part of a larger analysis of how international law deals with infectious diseases.
Microbialpolitik is the framework Fidler uses in analyzing the politics of international infectious diseases and how it affects international law. Microbialpolitik is the dynamic created by the impact of infectious diseases on international relations, and the impact of international relations on infectious diseases. A weakness of the book...