New PDF release: Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security

By Andrew T. Price-Smith

ISBN-10: 0262162482

ISBN-13: 9780262162487

ISBN-10: 0262662035

ISBN-13: 9780262662031

Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections among ailment and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the connection of public overall healthiness to governance, introducing the concept that of future health defense. In Contagion and Chaos, Andrew Price-Smith deals the main entire exam but of illness during the lens of nationwide safety. Extending the research awarded in his past publication The overall healthiness of Nations, Price-Smith argues that epidemic ailment represents an instantaneous probability to the ability of a nation, eroding prosperity and destabilizing either its inner politics and its relationships with different states. He contends that the chance of an infectious pathogen to nationwide safeguard relies on lethality, transmissability, worry, and financial harm. in addition, war and ecological switch give a contribution to the unfold of sickness and act as "disease amplifiers." Price-Smith offers a sequence of case experiences to demonstrate his argument: the Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (about which he advances the arguable declare that the epidemic contributed to the defeat of Germany and Austria); HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa (he contrasts the worst-case state of affairs of Zimbabwe with the extra reliable Botswana); bovine spongiform encephalopathy (also referred to as mad cow disease); and the SARS contagion of 2002-03. rising infectious illness maintains to offer a danger to nationwide and overseas protection, Price-Smith argues, and globalization and ecological swap in basic terms speed up the danger.

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