Governing Public Health

EU Law, Regulation and Biopolitics

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Mark L Flear, UK) Flear, Mark L (Queen's University Belfast, Mark L. Flear

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This book contributes towards EU studies and the growing discourse on law and public health. It uses the EU’s governance of public health as a lens through which to explore questions of legal competence and its development through policy and concrete techniques, processes and practices, risk and security, human rights and bioethics, accountability and legitimacy, democracy and citizenship, and the nature, essence and ‘future trajectory’ of the European integration project. These issues are explored first by situating the EU's public health strategy within the overarching architecture of governance and subsequently by examining its operationalisation in relation to the key public health problems of cancer, HIV/AIDS and pandemic planning.The book argues that the centrality and valorisation of scientific and technical knowledge and expertise in the EU's risk-based governance means that citizen participation in decision-making is largely marginalised and underdeveloped – and that this must change if public health and the quality, accountability and legitimacy of EU governance and its regulation are to be improved. Subsequently the book goes on to argue that the legitimating discourses of ethics and human rights, and the developing notion of EU (supra-)stewardship responsibility, can help to highlight the normative dimensions of governance and its interventions in public health. These discourses and dimensions provide openings and possibilities for citizens to power ‘technologies of participation’ and contribute important supplementary knowledge to decision-making.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-07-30
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt644 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieModern Studies in European Law
Antal sidor324
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781849462204

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1. Context, Approach and Overview I. Introduction II. Law, Public Health and Participation III. Governing in Late Modernity: Theory, Concepts and Methods IV. Overview Part I: Governing Public Health2. EU Public Health Governance: From the Overarching Architecture to the Health Strategy I. Introduction II. The EU and Public Health: Legal Competence, Governance and Responsibility III. Operationalising the Overarching Strategy in the Field of Public Health: Together for Health IV. Structured Cooperation: Public Health Policy Implementation and the Health Programmes V. Conclusion 3. Cancer I. Introduction II. From the Overarching Architecture of Governance to Action Against Cancer: European Partnership via Together for Health III. European Partnership for Action Against Cancer IV. Conclusion 4. HIV/AIDS I. Introduction II. From the Overarching Architecture of Governance to Combating HIV/AIDS within the EU and in the NeighbouringCountries — Reflecting Together for Health III. Taking Action: Combating HIV/AIDS within the EU and in the Neighbouring Countries IV. Technologies for the Gathering and Production of Knowledge V. Conclusion 5. Pandemics and Beyond I. Introduction II. From the Overarching Architecture of Governance to Pandemic Influenza Preparedness — ReflectingTogether for Health III. Governing the Future Through Preparedness Planning IV. Conclusion Part II: Enhancing Citizen Participation in Governing Public Health6. Citizen Participation in Governing: Discursive Resources,Tools and Spaces I. Introduction II. Summary of the Findings So Far III. Risk, Public Health and Citizen Participation IV. Opening Discursive Space and Powering Technologies of Participation V. Conclusion 7. Querying Framing and Knowledge Production: Risk, Numbers, Measurement and Evaluation I. Introduction II. Querying Risk III. Querying Scientific and Technical Knowledge Production IV. Clinical Trials V. Conclusion 8. Querying Interventions: Magic Bullet Responses and Technological Fixes I. Introduction II. Interventions III. Pharmaceuticals Abroad: Access, Prioritisation and Triage IV. Conclusion 9. Conclusion

Governing Public Health defies disciplinary boundaries; it brings together insights from sociology, political science, law and critical legal studies in order to uncover the complex regulation of public health in the European Union. It is a timely book which will appeal to scholars of the European Union in many disciplines. It provides an indispensable roadmap to the links between law, (bio)politics and citizen engagement in the regulation of public health.