global health

is complicated by increased pathogenicity on one hand (i.e. The intensifying global circulation of humans, animals, and agricultural products) and an increasingly confusion over regulation and responsibility on the other.

Contemporary articulations of global health typically share two elements. First, they focus on 'globalization' processes as a key source of pathogenicity, claiming that the intensifying global circulation of humans, animals, and agricultural products as well as knowledge and technologies encourages the spread of novel and dangerous new diseases. Second, there is the problem of regulation and responsibility: given the global scale of biological threats and their multiple sources, it is often unclear who has regulatory jurisdiction or responsibility for managing a (Collier and Lakoff 2008 : 17)

is that aspect of health which, if endangered anywhere on earth, is a danger to health everywhere.

Dangers to health anywhere on earth are dangers to health everywhere.'3

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global health