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Carnegie endowment for International Peace Division of Economics and History John Bates Clark, Director; Epidemics resulting from wars

Carnegie endowment for International Peace Division of Economics and History John Bates Clark, Director; Epidemics resulting from wars

Prinzing, Friedrich

Paperback

Medical ReferenceArmed ForcesInternational Relations

ISBN10: 935370488X
ISBN13: 9789353704889
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Battles redraw borders; microbes redraw lives. War ends; disease begins anew. In this Carnegie Endowment report, epidemiologist Friedrich Prinzing, edited by Harald Westergaard under the Division of Economics and History (John Bates Clark, Director), traces how war-related disease outbreaks follow armies home: from disrupted water supplies and crowded camps to the collapse of civilian care. Clear-eyed and unsentimental, it reads as both a historical public health report and a medical history monograph, translating statistics and observation into a compelling account of epidemics resulting from wars. Written in the World War I era and grounded in early 20th century Europe, this scholarly epidemiology study illuminates the chain from wartime sanitation and hygiene failures to postwar waves of the period's deadliest infections, as well as the administrative choices that curb or accelerate them. Its value today is double: a public health research reference for readers tracking the evolution of international health policy, and a rigorous military medicine course text for anyone studying prevention where systems are most fragile. It also stands as an early example of international peace research series thinking: health as a condition of stability, and epidemics as a political aftershock of violence. For the casual reader, the prose stays brisk; for scholars, the evidence rewards close rereading in depth. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure for historians, clinicians, and classic non-fiction collectors alike on your shelf.

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