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Contagion and chaos : disease, ecology, and national security in the era of globalization / Andrew T. Price-Smith.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262255530
  • 0262255537
  • 1282240226
  • 9781282240223
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contagion and chaos.DDC classification:
  • 362.196/9 22
LOC classification:
  • RA643 .P73 2009eb
NLM classification:
  • WA 110
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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.
Summary: An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.
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Sequel to: The health of nations / Andrew T. Price-Smith. c2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.

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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An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.

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