In sickness and in power
Subtitle: illnesses in heads of government during the last 100 years
By: David Owen.
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780313360053
Subjects: Heads of states -- Mental illness; Heads of states -- Mental illness -- History -- 20th century; Heads of states -- Health and hygiene; Heads of states -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 21st century; Federal government -- History -- 20th century; Federal government -- History -- 21st century; Famous Persons; Mental Disorders; Federal Government -- history; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Political Systems -- history
Other titles: Illnesses in heads of government during the last 100 years
Description: "The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state, sometimes in the public eye, but usually in secrecy. Democratic politicians as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Pompidou, Mitterrand, Blair, George W. Bush, Chirac, and Sharon all lied about their health." "Owen argues that a medically definable condition called Hubris Syndrome affects some heads of government the longer they stay in office or after a specific triggering event such as 9/11. Lord Owen makes the cases that democratic societies need to implement new procedures for dealing with illness in their own heads of government, and that they need to empower the United Nations to use new procedures and means for removing despots whose behavior becomes so hubristic as to pose a grave threat to their own people or the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1901-1953; title: 1953-2007; title: Prime Minister Eden's illness and Suez; title: President Kennedy's health; title: The Shah's secret illness; title: President Mitterrand's prostate cancer; title: Bush, Blair, and the war in Iraq; title: Safeguarding against illness in heads of government.