Emerging Infectious Disease/Emerging forms of Biological Sovereignty

摘要: Public health responses to emerging infectious disease (EID) rarely try interrupt the mobility of goods and information. Rather, designed under rubric ‘‘public security,’’ they extend rationale free circulation through efforts intensify movement communication between international agencies, national (and defence) departments, pharmaceutical industry. In this way, public security extends postliberal modes transnational regulation. This article examines an unfolding scenario which is testing health’s fidelity ethos trade agreements: Indonesia has withdrawn from World Health Organization’s (WHO) ‘‘virus-sharing’’ scheme because WHO facilitated use Indonesian samples H5N1 for commercial development potentially profitable vaccines without consultation with labs in originated. It been argued that move one contests current securitization globa...