ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights various ways in which infectious diseases may be thought to have deleterious impact on security and the kinds of measures that are commonly put forward as possible means of mitigating the security impact of infectious diseases. The ultimate value of 'national security', if and insofar as 'national security' is valuable, presumably consists in the protection against loss of the overall good of society. Terrorism is usually considered to be a crime and action aimed at mitigating the impact of a terrorist act could thus be considered a form of crime prevention. In contrast to monistic conceptions of the good, moderate pluralism holds that the good of an individual and the good of society consist in a plurality of intrinsic goods. The moderate aspect of 'moderate pluralism' consists in the idea that there is no one value that should have absolute priority over the others.
