Plagues and Politics

SIMON CARVALHO Associate Researcher, Institute for International Relations, University of British ColumbiaPAUL R. EPSTEIN Associate Director, Centre for Health and Global Environment, Harvard Medical SchoolDAVID P. FIDLER Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law, BloomingtonLAURIE GARRETT Medical and Science Reporter, Newsday MagazineSARA GLASGOW Doctoral Candidate, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College ParkLOCH K. JOHNSON Professor, Department of Political Science, University of GeorgiaANN MARIE KIMBALL Associate Professor of Health Services and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, University of WashingtonSTEPHEN S. MORSE Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia UniversityDENNIS PIRAGES Professor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College ParkDIANE C. SNYDER Department of Government, Princeton UniversitySIMON SZRETER Lecturer, Faculty of History, Cambridge UniversityJIM WHITMAN Lecturer, Department of Peace Studies, Bradford UniversityMARK ZACHER Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.T.Price-Smith Factors in the Emergence of Infectious Diseases; S.S.Morse Climate, Ecology and Human Health; P.R.Epstein The Economics of Emerging Infections in the Asia Pacific Region: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?; R.Davis & A.M.Kimball Economic Growth, Disruption, Deprivation, Disease, and Death: On the Importance of the Politics of Public Health for Development; S.Szreter Disease, Deprivation and International Development; A.T.Price-Smith The Map is not the Territory: Reconceiving Human Security; J.Whitman Ghosts of Kigali: Infectious Disease and Global Stability at the Turn of the Century; A.T.Price-Smith The Return of Infectious Disease; L.Garrett Microsecurity; S.Glasgow & D.Pirages Beyond the Traditional Intelligence Agenda: Examining the Merits of a Global Public Health Portfolio; L.K.Johnson & D.C.Snyder The International Health Regulations in Historical Perspective; S.Carvalho & M.Zacher Public Health and International Law: The Impact of Infectious Diseases on the Formation of International Legal Regimes, 1800-2000; D.P.Fidler Index