Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization

by Andrew T. Price-Smith

Book Overview

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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262662035
• ISBN13: 9780262662031
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher