Governing Public Health

EU Law, Regulation and Biopolitics
NIPPOD
ISBN: 978-1-5099-1776-1
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Paperback, Gewicht: 463 g

This book contributes towards EU studies and the growing discourse on law and public health. It uses the EU's governance of public health as a lens through which to explore questions of legal competence and its development through policy and concrete techniques, processes and practices, risk and security, human rights and bioethics, accountability and legitimacy, democracy and citizenship, and the nature, essence and 'future trajectory' of the European integration project. These issues are explored first by situating the EU's public health strategy within the overarching architecture of governance and subsequently by examining its operationalisation in relation to the key public health problems of cancer, HIV/AIDS and pandemic planning.

The book argues that the centrality and valorisation of scientific and technical knowledge and expertise in the EU's risk-based governance means that citizen participation in decision-making is largely marginalised and underdeveloped - and that this must change if public health and the quality, accountability and legitimacy of EU governance and its regulation are to be improved. Subsequently the book goes on to argue that the legitimating discourses of ethics and human rights, and the developing notion of EU (supra-)stewardship responsibility, can help to highlight the normative dimensions of governance and its interventions in public health. These discourses and dimensions provide openings and possibilities for citizens to power 'technologies of participation' and contribute important supplementary knowledge to decision-making.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flear, Mark L

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Context, Approach and Overview

I. Introduction

II. Law, Public Health and Participation

III. Governing in Late Modernity: Theory, Concepts and Methods

IV. Overview

Part I: Governing Public Health
2. EU Public Health Governance: From the Overarching Architecture to the Health Strategy

I. Introduction

II. The EU and Public Health: Legal Competence, Governance and Responsibility

III. Operationalising the Overarching Strategy in the Field of Public Health: Together for Health

IV. Structured Cooperation: Public Health Policy Implementation and the Health Programmes

V. Conclusion

3. Cancer

I. Introduction

II. From the Overarching Architecture of Governance to Action Against Cancer: European Partnership via Together for Health

III. European Partnership for Action Against Cancer

IV. Conclusion

4. HIV/AIDS

I. Introduction

II. From the Overarching Architecture of Governance to Combating HIV/AIDS within the EU and in the NeighbouringCountries - Reflecting Together for Health

III. Taking Action: Combating HIV/AIDS within the EU and in the Neighbouring Countries

IV. Technologies for the Gathering and Production of Knowledge

V. Conclusion

5. Pandemics and Beyond

I. Introduction

II. From the Overarching Architecture of Governance to Pandemic Influenza Preparedness - Reflecting
Together for Health

III. Governing the Future Through Preparedness Planning

IV. Conclusion

Part II: Enhancing Citizen Participation in Governing Public Health
6. Citizen Participation in Governing: Discursive Resources,
Tools and Spaces

I. Introduction

II. Summary of the Findings So Far

III. Risk, Public Health and Citizen Participation

IV. Opening Discursive Space and Powering Technologies of Participation

V. Conclusion

7. Querying Framing and Knowledge Production: Risk, Numbers, Measurement and Evaluation

I. Introduction

II. Querying Risk

III. Querying Scientific and Technical Knowledge Production

IV. Clinical Trials

V. Conclusion

8. Querying Interventions: Magic Bullet Responses and Technological Fixes

I. Introduction

II. Interventions

III. Pharmaceuticals Abroad: Access, Prioritisation and Triage

IV. Conclusion

9. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Flear, Mark L
Mark L Flear is Professor of Law and Socio-Legal Studies at Queen's University Belfast, UK.

Mark L Flear is a Lecturer in Law at Queen's University, Belfast.