Offers an exposition to the rapidly developing law of tort in Britain. This book includes developments in tort law, the most significant of which is doubtless the incorporation into English law of the European Convention on Human Rights. It is intended for those engaged in the course or completing it.

Global Public Health Vigilance is the first sociological book to investigate recent changes in how global public health authorities imagine and respond to international threats to human health.

This book explores a remarkable period of conceptual innovation during which infectious disease, historically the focus of international disease control, was displaced by "international public health emergencies," a concept that brought new responsibilities to public health authorities, helping to shape a new project of global public health security.

Drawing...