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1 online resource (268 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Preface -- I The World Health Organization (WHO) and the global governance of diseases -- Part I The birth of the WHO and the International Health Regulations (IHR) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The international health regime prior to the creation of the WHO -- 2.1. The phase of health unilateralism -- 2.2. The shift of the XX century -- 3. The WHO's foundations -- 4. The WHO's structure and its institutional set up -- 5. The legal powers of the WHO -- 6. The International Health Regulations |
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6.1. Negotiation process -- 6.2. The all risk approach -- 6.3. Main duties upon states -- 6.3.1. Information sharing -- 6.3.2. Capacity-building obligations -- 7. Soft law instruments -- 8. Global strategies -- Part II The right to health and international law -- 9. The right to health -- 10. Health and human rights -- 11. The international covenant on economic, cultural, and social rights -- 12. Sectorial treaties and right to health -- 12.1. General human rights treaties (at a universal or regional scope) -- 12.2. Regional level -- 12.3. Biolaw and the right to health |
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13. International jurisprudence -- 14. Conclusions -- II Is the WHO truly independent? Successes, failures, and perspectives of reform -- 1. Short overview of WHO's achievements and failures -- 2. The epidemiological transition model -- 3. WHO declarations of PHEIC -- 4. Declarations of PHEIC: The WHO's practice -- 4.1. The H1N1 influenza pandemic (2009-2010) -- 4.2. The resurgence of wild polio (2014-) -- 4.3. The case of MERS -- 4.4. The case of Ebola 2014-2016 -- 4.5. The case of Zika -- 4.6. The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (2019-2020) -- 4.7. The COVID-19 outbreak |
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4.8. The monkeypox outbreak -- 5. The WHO's lack of enforcement powers -- 6. How to improve the global health architecture -- 6.1. The call for reform -- 6.2. The new pandemic treaty -- 6.3. Advantages -- 6.4. Drawbacks and other options -- 7. Conclusions -- III The COVID-19 pandemic and the global and domestic responses: What went wrong? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The levels of responsibility for the spread of COVID-19 -- a) The WHO -- b) China -- c) The member states -- 3. The "Mission Creep" of the WHO -- 4. In search of the WHO's responsibilities -- 4.1. Background |
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4.2. The meetings of the Emergency Committee of 22-23 January 2020 and the decision not to declare a PHEIC -- 4.3. What went wrong? -- a) The role of the Emergency Committee -- b) Design flaw -- 5. The declaration of PHEIC of 30 January 2020 and the measures recommended -- 6. The declaration of the pandemic of COVID-19 as a trigger for domestic pandemic plans -- 7. Concluding remarks -- IV The origins of COVID-19, pandemic risk, and the limits of environmental law -- 1. Disease spillover and environmental degradation -- 2. The origins of COVID-19 and the limits of environmental law |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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3. The gaps of environmental law |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003815815 |
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1003815812 |
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