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Research Guide on International Health Law

 

By Chenglin Liu

 

Chenglin Liu is the Foreign and International Librarian at the O'Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston Law Center, where he also teaches Chinese Law. Mr. Liu received his Masters of Law from Dalian University of Technology ( China ) in 1993, an LL.M in European Law from Lund University ( Sweden ) in 1999, LL.M and J.S.D from Washington University in St. Louis in 2000 and 2005. Mr. Liu earned his MIS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002. Mr. Liu is the author of Chinese Law on SARS ( New York : W.S. Hein2004).

 

Published August 2006

 

Table of Contents

Introduction

Institutions

Key Definitions

Basic Documents of International Health Law  

Online Sources on Public Emergency Preparedness and Response

Selected Bibliography on International Health Law (books and articles)

 

 

Introduction

While globalization has facilitated world trade and economic growth, it has also enabled regional epidemics to spread at unprecedented speed worldwide. A chilling example is the SARS epidemic, which started in China and quickly spread to two dozen countries. This research guide provides information about the general trends in global diseases and legal efforts against them, effects on trade and human rights law, and legal research in the new field of international health law. A selected bibliography is available at the end of this research guide.

 

Institutions

 

Key Definitions

(CDC Glossary)

 

Basic Documents-Treaties

 

Online Sources on Public Emergency Preparedness and Response

 

Selected Bibliography on International Health Law

I. Selected Books

 

·         Aboud, Frances E. Health psychology in global perspective. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1998

·         Anand, Sudhir;  Peter, Fabienne;  Sen, Amartya Kumar. Public health, ethics, and equity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

·         Beaglehole R. Global public health, a new era.  Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,2003

·         Beaglehole R; Bonita R. Public health at the crossroads: achievements and prospects. Cambridge , UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 2nd ed.

·         Beaglehole, R; Bonita, R. Public health at the crossroads: achievements and prospects. Cambridge , U.K. ; New York , NY , USA : Cambridge University Press, 1997

·         Behrman, Greg. The invisible people: how the U.S. has slept through the global AIDS pandemic, the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of our time. New York : Free Press, 2004

·         Beigbeder,Yves. International public health: patients' rights vs. the protection of patents Aldershot Hants , Eng. ; Burlington , VT : Ashgate, 2004

·         BioMed Central Ltd. Globalization and health [ London ] : BioMed Central, 2005-

·         BMC international health and human rights [ London ] : BioMed Central, 2001-

·         Bortolotti, Dan. Hope in hell: inside the world of Doctors without Borders Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2004

·         Bull, Chris. While the world sleeps: writing from the first twenty years of the global AIDS plague.   New York : Thunder Mouth Press ; [ Emeryville , CA ]: Distributed by Publishers Group West, 2003

·         Chandler , William U. Improving world health: a least cost strategy. Washington , D.C. , USA : Worldwatch Institute, 1984

·         Chen, Lincoln C;  Kleinman, Arthur;  Ware, Norma C. Health and social change in international perspective. Boston , Mass. : Dept. of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 1993

·         Chen, Lincoln C;  Leaning, Jennifer, Narasimhan, Vasant. Global health challenges for human security. Cambridge , Mass. : Global Equity Initiative ; Asia Center , Harvard University : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003

·         Crompton D W T. Controlling disease due to helminth infections. Geneva : World Health Organization, 2003

·         Crosse, Marcia. Global malaria control U.S. and multinational investments and implementation challenges. Publication: Washington , DC : U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2005

·         D'Adesky, Anne-Christine. Moving mountains: the race to treat global AIDS. London ; New York : Verso 2004

·         Dakin, Theodora P. A history of women's contribution to world health. Lewiston , N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, 1991

·         Davis, Jonathan R;  Lederberg, Joshua. Emerging infectious diseases from the global to the local perspective: a summary of a workshop of the Forum on Emerging Infections. Washington , D.C. : National Academy Press, 2001

·         Eiseman, Elisa;  Fossum, Donna. The challenges of creating a global health resource tracking system. Santa Monica , CA : RAND Corp., 2005

·         Elbe, Stefan. Strategic implications of HIV/AIDS / Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2003

·         Fidler, David P. SARS: governance and the globalization of disease. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

·         _____. International law and infectious diseases.   Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

·         Foege, William H. Global health leadership and management. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2005 1st ed.

·         Foley, Ronan. World health: the impact on our lives. Austin , TX : Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2003

·         Fort, Meredith P;  Mercer, Mary Anne;  Gish, Oscar: Sickness and wealth: the corporate assault on global health. Cambridge , Mass. : South End Press, 2004 1st ed.

·         Fried, Bruce and Gaydos, Laura M. World health systems: challenges and perspectives. Chicago : Health Administration Press 2002

·         Gandy, Matthew and Zumla, Alimuddin. The return of the white plague: global poverty and the "new" tuberculosis. London ; New York : Verso 2003

·         Global health: framework for infectious disease surveillance. United States . Washington , D.C. ( P.O. Box 37050 , Washington , D.C. 20013 ), 2000

·         Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States. United States . Washington , D.C. : Central Intelligence Agency, 2000

·         Gray, Alastair;  Payne, P R. World health and disease. Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 2001 3rd ed.

·         Guest Greg. Globalization, health, and the environment: an integrated perspective. Lanham , MD : AltaMira Press, 2005

·         Gunn, S William. Understanding the global dimensions of health.   New York : Springer, 2005.

·         Haider, Muhiuddin. Global public health communication: challenges, perspectives, and strategies. Sudbury , Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2005

·         Hall, Ross Hume. Health and the global environment. Cambridge , UK : Polity Press, 1990

·         Harris Richard L;  Seid Melinda. Globalization and health.   Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004

·         Irwin, Alexander C; Millen, Joyce; Fallows, Dorothy. Global AIDS: myths and facts:  tools for fighting the AIDS pandemic.   Cambridge , Mass. : South End Press, 2003

·         Jenkins, C David. Building better health: a handbook of behavioral change. Washington ,