Health, Politics and Security

Bibliographic Data

ID3906084
AuthorsJoão Nunes (0000-0002-0118-0993), João Arriscado Nunes (0000-0003-0109-8268, Aberystwyth University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume15
Issue15
Publication date2012-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
Venuee-cadernos CES (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1647-0737 • E-ISSN: 1647-0737
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/eces.989
OpenAlexW1973507604
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited44

This article explores the links between health, security and politics, with the objective of providing the groundwork for a political analysis of health in the discipline of International Relations. It makes two arguments. Firstly, it argues that health can be seen as form of politics; secondly, it suggests that security provides a good lens to analyse the political work of health. The article makes the case for seeing health as more than a medical condition and/or a set of technical solutions. Rather, health should be approached as a set of perceptions, understandings and practices that mobilize forms of power and are constitutive of social relations and the political realm. The article shows that the health-security nexus, and particularly its two articulations securitization of health and medicalization of security, constitutes a good indicator of how health is constitutive of politics at the international level

Critical security studies · Economics · International relations · Medicalization · Political science · Politics · Realm · Securitization · Sociology · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Global Security and Public Health · Health and Conflict Studies · Law · Medicine