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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454300803321

Autore

Price-Smith Andrew T

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009

ISBN

0-262-25553-7

9786612240225

1-282-24022-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Price-SmithAndrew T

Disciplina

362.196/9

Soggetti

Communicable diseases - History

Communicable diseases - Political aspects

Communicable diseases - Social aspects

National security

Security, International

Diseases and history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Sequel to: The health of nations / Andrew T. Price-Smith. c2002.

Sommario/riassunto

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.