This book contributes towards European Union studies and the growing discourse on law and public health. It uses the EU's governance of public health as a lens through which to explore questions of legal competence and its development through policy and concrete techniques, processes and practices, risk and security, human rights and bioethics, accountability and legitimacy, democracy and citizenship, and the nature, essence, and 'future trajectory' of the European integration project. These issues are explored first by situating the EU's public health strategy within the overarching...