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

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

Price-Smith, Andrew T.

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Medical Reference

ISBN10: 0262662035
ISBN13: 9780262662031
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Feb 1 2009
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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 and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith offers the most comprehensive examination yet of disease through the lens of national security. Extending the analysis presented in his earlier book The Health of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic disease represents a direct threat to the power of a state, eroding prosperity and destabilizing both its internal politics and its relationships with other states. He contends that the danger of an infectious pathogen to national security depends on lethality, transmissability, fear, and economic damage. Moreover, warfare and ecological change contribute to the spread of disease and act as disease amplifiers.

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