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Article: International Law and Infectious Diseases

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International Law and Infectious Diseases

David P. Fidler

Oxford 1999

International law plays an important but under-explored role in infectious disease control. Laws dealing with infectious diseases have implications on a number of important areas in international law including trade law, human rights law, environmental law and the law of war. International Law and Infectious Diseases, by David Fidler, is one of the first attempts to bring together the major legal issues concerning infectious diseases into book form. Fidler devotes a chapter to each area of convergence of international jurisprudence and infectious diseases that he identifies. Each chapter can be read alone or as a part ...

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