ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the threat of infectious disease outbreaks continues to be a serious health concern. However, some aspects of that threat are presently so serious that they warrant treatment in security terms. Accordingly, this book proposes a framework for ‘securitizing’ a set of infectious disease threats that may arise through natural processes or as a result of human agency, and that have the greatest potential to cause a high degree of damage and disruption in a short space of time. This new, integrated framework is valuable because many security-oriented approaches to infectious disease have hitherto been misguided or inadequate.
