Contagion and chaos
Subtitle: disease, ecology, and national security in the era of globalization
By: Andrew T. Price-Smith.
Contributors: Price-Smith, Andrew T.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780262162487; 9780262662031
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- History; Communicable diseases -- Political aspects; Communicable diseases -- Social aspects; National security; Security, International; Diseases and history; Communicable Diseases, Emerging -- prevention & control; Disease Outbreaks -- history; Environmental Health; Health Policy; Security Measures
Description: 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.
Notes: Sequel to: The health of nations / Andrew T. Price-Smith. c2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theory and exegesis : on health and the body politic; title: Epidemic disease, history, and the state; title: Pandemic influenza : on sclerosis in governance; title: HIV/AIDS, state capacity, and national security : lessons from Zimbabwe; title: Mad cows and Englishmen : BSE and the politics of discord; title: Epidemic of fear : SARS and the political economy of contagion in the Pacific Rim; title: War as a disease amplifier; title: On health, power, and security.