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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262162482
• ISBN13: 9780262162487
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"