Contagion and chaos : disease, ecology, and national security in the era of globalization

Contagion and chaos : disease, ecology, and national security in the era of globalization /

"Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance, introducing the concept of health security. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers...

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Main Author: Price-Smith, Andrew T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Communicable diseases > History
Communicable diseases > Political aspects.
Communicable diseases > Social aspects.
National security
Security, International
Diseases and history
Epidemie.
Globalisierung.
Gesundheitspolitik.
Innere Sicherheit.
Gesundheitsschutz.
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control
Disease Outbreaks > history
Environmental Health
Health Policy
Security Measures
Table of Contents:
  • Theory and exegesis : on health and the body politic
  • Epidemic disease, history, and the state
  • Pandemic influenza : on sclerosis in governance
  • HIV/AIDS, state capacity, and national security : lessons from Zimbabwe
  • Mad cows and Englishmen : BSE and the politics of discord
  • Epidemic of fear : SARS and the political economy of contagion in the Pacific Rim
  • War as a "disease amplifier"
  • On health, power, and security.

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