Pandemics, Pills, and Politics av Stefan (Director Centre for Global Health Policy & Professor of International Relations University of Sussex) El

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<p><b>The fascinating story of Tamiflu''s development and stockpiling against global health threats.orld''s most prominent medical countermeasure, Tamiflu.</b></p><p>A pill can strengthen national security? The suggestion may seem odd, but many states around the world believe precisely that. Confronted with pandemics, bioterrorism, and emerging infectious diseases, governments are transforming their security policies to include the proactive development, acquisition, stockpiling, and mass distribution of new pharmaceutical defenses. What happens¿politically, economically, and socially¿when governments try to protect their populations with pharmaceuticals? How do competing interests among states, pharmaceutical companies, regulators, and scientists play out in the quest to develop new medical countermeasures? And do citizens around the world ultimately stand to gain or lose from this pharmaceuticalization of security policy?</p><p>Stefan Elbe explores these complex questions in <i>Pande