The Global Politics of Medicine
Beyond global health, against securitisation theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11425834 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alison Howell (0000-0002-4814-6872, Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 961-987 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of International Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-2105 • E-ISSN: 1469-9044 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0260210514000369 |
| OpenAlex | W1990422180 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 51 |
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 medicine and the life sciences, in order to both challenge current IR theories, and develop new theoretical and empirical insights in IR. In particular, the article challenges the validity of securitisation theory, and specifically the argument that health has been securitised. Showing instead that medicine and warfare have been imbricated from the nineteenth century as strategies of population, it challenges securitisation theory's ahistoricism and its assumption that social security and international security (and the norm/exception) are analytically divisible. Bringing this into the present through the examples of triage, psychological resilience, and genetic intelligence in counterinsurgency, it traces how warfare and medicine now ambitiously seek to treat populations as sets of individual bodies. Arguing that we cannot retreat to some mythical state of politics ‘prior’ to securitisation, it draws out how the fields of war, health, and medicine are nonetheless highly contested. The article concludes by challenging the fields of Global Health, war, and security studies, but also suggests novel routes for pursuing the study of the Global Politics of Medicine
Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · International relations · International relations theory · Law and economics · Norm (philosophy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Social science · Sociology · Bacillus and Francisella bacterial research · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine
‘Pre-crime’, Prevent, and practices of exceptionalism
Forum
Genomic Screening from Healthfare to Warfare
Hospitality for irregular migrants in the National Health Service
Narrativization of human population genetics
The Virus of Surveillance
Lockdown and the intimate
Expert-Led Securitization
Securitising infectious disease outbreaks
Hallucination and intervention
The Threat of (the Lack of) Social Cohesion
The geography of pre-criminal space
Flesh and steel
Orders of worth and the moral conceptions of health in global politics
How to feel about war
Towards a new definition of health security
Identifying and addressing the governance accountability problem
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
The logic of protection
Performative securitization
Opportunistic oppression
The somatic-security industrial complex
Securitizing Zika
The intersectionality of health (in)security
Governing dual-use knowledge
Wars of excess
Transness as insecurity
Algorithmic autoimmunity in the NHS
Operating by caesura
What is told is always in the telling’
The Psy-Security-Curriculum ensemble
Military responses to Covid-19, emerging trends in global civil-military engagements
Psy-expertise, therapeutic culture and the politics of the personal in development
What can IR learn from disability studies? Debility, capacity and power in the case of Covid-19
Securitising health in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
From Threat to Risk? Exceptionalism and Logics of Health Security
Cold War Psychiatry, Extremism, and Expertise
Racism in Foucauldian Security Studies
Affective technologies of welfare deterrence in Australia and the United Kingdom
Antisemitism and International Relations
Bioinformational diplomacy
Securitising Covid-19? The Politics of Global Health and the Limits of the Copenhagen School
Shifting the burden
The pandemic sovereign
Veteran Therapeutics
Global Health Security
The Liberal Way of War
Clinical Labor
Reassessing Foucault
How To Do Things With Words
Tranquil Prisons
Madness in International Relations
Security
Securitization Theory. How Security Problems Emerge and Dissolve
Health, stabilization and securitization
Evidence-based medicine and the governance of pandemic influenza
The securitisation of pandemic influenza
Society Must Be Defended’
Security and the democratic scene
From Social to National Security
Still an Inscrutable Concept
A Reductionist, Idealistic Notion that Adds Little Analytical Value
Foucault in Guantánamo
Microbes, Mad Cows and Militaries
A programme of global pacification
Doing’ Security As Though Humans Matter
Guantánamo Bay and the Annihilation of the Exception
The Little Mermaid's Silent Security Dilemma and the Absence of Gender in the Copenhagen School
Of Camps and Critiques
From War to Security
Blair's Africa
Cutting off the King's Head
The securitisation of avian influenza
Welfare Warriors
Bad Blood
Exceptionalism and the 'War on Terror
Pandemics on the Radar Screen
The Chronicle of a Disease Foretold
Should HIV/Aids Be Securitized? The Ethical Dilemmas of Linking HIV/Aids and Security
Minding Exceptions
Administering Colonial Science
HIV/Aids and securitization theory
Securitization and the Construction of Security
Security and Immigration
Significant Injury
Global Health and International Relations
Securitizing infectious disease
HIV, Aids and security
Powers of War
Victims or Madmen? The Diagnostic Competition over 'Terrorist' Detainees at Guantánamo Bay
| Unique citing works | 45 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |