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

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Price-Smith, Andrew T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Europäische Atomgemeinschaft > Direktion Gesundheitsschutz
Communicable diseases > History.
Communicable diseases > Political aspects.
Communicable diseases > Social aspects.
National security.
Security, International.
Diseases and history.
Environmental health.
Medical policy.
Disease Outbreaks > history
Communicable Diseases, Emerging > prevention & control
Environmental Health
Health Policy
Security Measures
Maladies infectieuses > Histoire.
Maladies infectieuses > Aspect politique.
Maladies infectieuses > Aspect social.
Maladies et histoire.
Hygiène du milieu.
Politique sanitaire.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Contagious.
Medical policy
Environmental health
Communicable diseases
Communicable diseases > Political aspects
Communicable diseases > Social aspects
Diseases and history
National security
Security, International
Epidemie
Globalisierung
Gesundheitspolitik
Innere Sicherheit
Gesundheitsschutz
Smittsamma sjukdomar > historia.
International security.
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/International Relations & Security
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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