Biosecurity: Friend or Foe for Public Health Governance?

Abstract

The annals of public health record many milestones in the evolution of this area of the governance of human affairs. The development of bacteriology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries represents one of these transformational events that changed the theory and practice of public health forever. Other seminal changes include the emergence of international cooperation on public health in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the development of antibiotics and vaccines in the mid-twentieth century, and the convergence of public health and the human rights movement in the second half of the twentieth century. This chapter analyzes another transformational moment in public health as a governance activity — the emergence of biosecurity.KeywordsFault LineProtection InterventionInternational Public HealthPolicy WorldDangerous PathogenThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.