New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives

by Alex de Waal

Book Overview

New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed - repeatedly. Europe first declared 'war' on cholera in the 19th century. It didn't defeat the disease but it served purposes of state and empire. In 1918, influenza emerged from a real war and swept the world unchecked by either policy or medicine. Forty years ago, AIDS challenged the confidence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509547800
• ISBN13: 9781509547807
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.2"