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Autore: |
Price-Smith Andrew T
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Titolo: |
Contagion and chaos : disease, ecology, and national security in the era of globalization / / Andrew T. Price-Smith
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.196/9 |
Soggetto topico: | Communicable diseases - History |
Communicable diseases - Political aspects | |
Communicable diseases - Social aspects | |
National security | |
Security, International | |
Diseases and history | |
Altri autori: | Price-SmithAndrew T |
Note generali: | Sequel to: The health of nations / Andrew T. Price-Smith. c2002. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-273) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Theory and Exegesis: On Health and the Body Politic -- 2 Epidemic Disease, History, and the State -- 3 Pandemic Influenza : On Sclerosis in Governance -- 4 HIV/AIDS, State Capacity, and National Security: Lessons from Zimbabwe -- 5 Mad Cows and Englishmen: BSE and the Politics of Discord -- 6 Epidemic of Fear: SARS and the Political Economy of Contagion in the Pacific Rim -- 7 War as a "Disease Amplifier -- 8 On Health, Power, and Security -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Contagion and chaos ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-262-26424-2 |
0-262-25553-7 | |
9786612240225 | |
1-282-24022-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812928203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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