Title: In sickness and in power
First published: 2008
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.
Subjects: Health and hygiene, History, 21st Century, Heads of states, Political Systems, Famous Persons, Mental illness, Federal government, History, Mental Disorders, History, 20th Century, Heads of state, History, modern, 20th century, History, modern, 21st century
Time periods: 20th century, 21st century
LC classification: RC451.4.S64 .O94 2008