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

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-12-05
Publisher: The MIT Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0262662035
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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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 Download Contagion and Chaos for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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