SARS, Public Health and Global Governance

Abstract:     
To explore the intersections between the threats posed by new public health challenges and new theories of governance, in March 2004 Temple Law School's Institute for International Law and Public Policy hosted a meeting on SARS, Public Health and Global Governance. The meeting involved leading public health scholars; international legal experts; students of global governance; current and former government officials; and activists from the U.S. and abroad to engage in a sustained dialogue on these issues. This Symposium issue of the Temple Law Review includes articles based on the papers, and comments on the papers, presented at the meeting:

China's Response to SARS
Professor Ruotao Wang

SARS and International Legal Preparedness
Jason W. Sapsin et al.

Are Traditional Public Health Strategies Consistent With Contemporary American Values?
Mark A. Rothstein

Atypical Pneumonia and Ambivalent Law and Politics: SARS and the Response to SARS in China
Jacques deLisle

Constitutional Outlines of Public Health's New World Order
Professor David P. Fidler

Politics, Power, and Public Health: A Comment on Public Health's New World Order
Professor Laurence R. Helfer

Between Isolationalism and Mutual Vulnerability: A South-North Perspective on Global Governance of Epidemics in an Age of Globalization
Professor Obijiofor Aginam

Is There a Government in the Cockpit: A Passenger's Perspective or Global Public Health: The Role of Human Rights
Professor Sofia Gruskin

Governance, Microgovernance and Health
Professor Scott Burris

The Quest for Global Governance in Intellectual Property and Public Health: Structural, Discursive, and Institutional Dimensions
Professor Susan K. Sell

Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Markets: A Nodal Governance Approach
Peter Drahos

Keywords: public health, governance, communicable disease, politics

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