Virus Alert: Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic

Stefan Elbe

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July, 2009
Cloth, 224 pages, 3 tables
ISBN: 978-0-231-14868-9
$45.00 / £31.00

Acknowledgments

1. Viruses, Health, and International Security

2. A Noble Lie? Examining the Evidence on AIDS and Security

3. Security in the Era of Governmentality: AIDS and the Rise of Health Security

4. National Security: Sovereignty, Medicine, and the Securitization of Aids

5. Human Security: Discipline, Healthy Bodies, and the Global Curing Machine

6. Risk and Security: Government, Military Risk Groups, and Population Triage

7. The Power of AIDS: Responding to the Governmentalization of Security

References

Index

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Security Studies

About the Author

Stefan Elbe is reader (associate professor) in the Department of International Relations at the University of Sussex, where he teaches security studies. Previously, he held positions at the London School of Economics, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the University of Essex, and the University of Warwick.

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