Until quite recently and since the late 19th century, medical microbiology has been based on
the assumption that some micro-organisms are pathogens and others are not. This binary …

Dengue fever is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues
that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always view humans and mosquitoes …

This article considers how anthropologists and other social scientists examine biosecurity as
an object in the making. It suggests that scholars encountered this object in research …

This article analyses the emergency governance of international organizations by combining
securitization theory with legal theory on the state of exception. Our main argument is that …

Background The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the vast differences in
approaches to the control and containment of coronavirus across the world and has …

Abstract Since 2001 the World Health Organization (WHO) has been actively promoting its
credentials for managing 'global health security'. However, the organisation's initial …

O vírus Zika foi isolado pela primeira vez em 1947 em Uganda. Se a doença existe desde
então, por que somente agora há atenção da mídia, da ciência, das agências financiadoras …

This article argues that the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa reinscribed the neglect that
has surrounded this disease. The argument develops theoretical tools for understanding …

In this paper, we explore the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as an
object of political concern in and for countries of the global South. While epidemiologists and …

This article makes the case for a new field in International Relations (IR): the Global Politics
of Medicine. It argues that significant avenues of research can be opened up by focusing on …