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Infectious Diseases Drifting Through Time: Genealogy of International Law and Global Issues (in Japanese)
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| Author: Osamu Arakaki |
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Price: JPY 2,700
Publication date: Aug 20, 2021
ISBN: 978-4-7664-2762-2 C0022
370 pages |
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Osamu Arakaki, Infectious Diseases Drifting Through Time: Genealogy of International Law and Global Issues (Keio University Press, 2021)
▼This book dictates history of 170 years on epidemics and world transformation.
▼ Keywords to understand international response to infectious disease are found in the history of international law.
▼The plague, cholera, smallpox, AIDS, SARS, and COVID-19... How these infectious diseases have been intertwined with international law, transformed, and passed on to the next generations in the international society. While articulating the history through the lens of international law, this ambitious work deals with the issues that the world is confronting today.
Pathogens such as viruses and bacteria invade human body, parasitize host and proliferate, eventually causing symptoms of infectious diseases. Pathogens drift in air without losing their infectivity even if they become droplet nuclei. However, infectious diseases are not confined to air. Cholera, plague..., and COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus Disease). These infectious diseases that appear one after another or reappear by changing their mode have never left from the flow of time. They are moving continuously from the past to the present and the future, riding on the currents in axis of time…
(Extracted from the “Introduction” of the book).
▼about author Osamu Arakaki:
Osamu Arakaki is a professor at International Christian University (ICU), Japan, and an expert of international law. He received a PhD in Law from Victoria University of Wellington and an MA in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Before he began serving at ICU, he was a visiting fellow at Harvard Law School, visiting associate professor at the University of Tokyo and professor at Hiroshima City University. His main works include Refugee Law and Practice in Japan (Ashgate, 2008), “Non-state actors and UNHCR’s supervisory role in international relations,” in James C Simeon (ed.), The UNHCR and the Supervision of International Refugee Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and Statelessness Conventions and Japanese Laws: Convergence and Divergence (UNHCR Representation in Japan, 2015). |
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| Table of Content |
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| Introduction/Explanatory Notes |
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| PART 1 1851- Mid 1940s |
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CHAPTER 1
1851 to 1890s: International Sanitary Conferences and International Sanitary Conventions |
Section 1: Cholera and Plague / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: The Beginning of the International Sanitary Conference / Section 4: The Birth of International Sanitary Convention
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CHAPTER 2
1900s to 1910s: Defense Against the Threat of the East |
Section 1: Yellow Fever / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: International Sanitary Convention in 1903 / Section 4: International Agreement to Establish the International Office of Public Health in Paris in 1907 / Section 5: International Sanitary Convention in 1912
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CHAPTER 3
1920s: From Europe to the World |
Section 1: Typhoid and Smallpox / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: International Sanitary Convention in 1926
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CHAPTER 4
1930s: From Land and Sea to Air |
Section 1: Air and Infectious Disease / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation in 1933 / Section 4: Convention Modifying the 1926 International Sanitary Convention in 1938 / Section 5: Characteristics of the International Sanitary Conventions from the 1900s to the 1930s
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CHAPTER 5
Till Around Mid 1940s: The Second World War |
Section 1: War and Infectious Disease / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: Convention Modifying the 1926 International Sanitary Convention in 1944 / Section 4: Convention Modifying the 1933 International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation in 1944 / Section 5: Characteristics of the International Sanitary Convention in 1944 / Section 6: Protocol to Prolong the 1944 International Sanitary Convention in 1946
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| PART 2 Late-1940s to 1970s |
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CHAPTER 6
Late-1940s: The Birth of WHO |
Section 1: Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB): World’s Oldest International Health Organization / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: Constitution of the World Health Organization / Section 4: WHO’s Exercise of Authority
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CHAPTER 7
1950s: International Sanitary Regulations |
Section 1: Malaria Eradication Programme / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: Overview of International Sanitary Regulations / Section 4: Characteristics of International Sanitary Regulations
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CHAPTER 8
1960s - 1970s: International Health Regulations |
Section 1: Cold war and Infectious Disease / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: From International Sanitary Regulations to International Health Regulations / Section 4: Estrangement and Decline
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| PART 3 1980s to 2020 |
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CHAPTER 9
1980s to 1990s: Linkage with International Human Rights Law |
Section 1: HIV/AIDS / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: 1980s - Civil Liberties / Section 4: 1990s - Social Rights
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CHAPTER 10
2000s: Towards Revitalizing International Health Regulations |
Section 1: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: Contents and Characteristics of International Health Regulation in 2005
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CHAPTER 11
2010s: Linkage to Security |
Section 1: Ebola Virus Disease / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) / Section 4: Securitization of Infectious Disease and the United States
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CHAPTER 12
2020: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus Infection) and New Challenges |
Section 1: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus Infection) / Section 2: Background and Details / Section 3: China and State Responsibility / Section 4: The Diamond Princess and the 2005 International Health Regulations
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| PART 4 Global Issues |
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CHAPTER 13
Medicine and Medical Supplies for Infectious Diseases and Patents |
Section 1: Until 1980s / Section 2: 1990s - Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement / Section 3: The Doha Declaration and International Human Rights Law
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CHAPTER 14
Vaccine |
Section 1: 2011 - Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP) / Section 2: 2020 to 2012 - COVAX / Section 3: Access to Medicine and Medical Supplies - Vaccines for Infectious Diseases
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CHAPTER 15
Biological Weapon and Bioterrorism |
Section 1: Pre-Second World War - Militarization and Restrictions of Infectious Disease / Section 2: Post 1960s - The Biological Weapons Convention / Section 3: After the End of the Cold War - Threat of Bioterrorism
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CHAPTER 16
Infectious Diseases Drifting Through Time: Trajectory of International Law in the Light of Regime Theory |
Section 1: 1851 to Mid 1940s - European Regime / Section 2: Latter of the 1940s to 1970s - International Regime / Section 3: 1980s to 2020 - Towards Global Governance?
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| List of Primary References / Concluding Remarks / Index |
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| Index |
