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New Pandemics, Old Politics
Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives
Taschenbuch von Alex De Waal
Sprache: Englisch

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New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed - repeatedly. Europe first declared 'war' on cholera in the 19th century. It didn't defeat the disease but it served purposes of state and empire. In 1918, influenza emerged from a real war and swept the world unchecked by either policy or medicine. Forty years ago, AIDS challenged the confidence of medical science. AIDS is still with us, but we have learned to live with it - chiefly because of community activism and emancipatory politics.

Today, public health experts and political leaders who failed to listen to them agree on one thing: that we must 'fight' Covid-19. There's a consensus that we should target individual pathogens and suppress them - rather than address the reasons why our societies are so vulnerable. Arguing that this consensus is mistaken, Alex de Waal makes the case for a new democratic public health for the Anthropocene.
New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic disease threats, and how this has failed - repeatedly. Europe first declared 'war' on cholera in the 19th century. It didn't defeat the disease but it served purposes of state and empire. In 1918, influenza emerged from a real war and swept the world unchecked by either policy or medicine. Forty years ago, AIDS challenged the confidence of medical science. AIDS is still with us, but we have learned to live with it - chiefly because of community activism and emancipatory politics.

Today, public health experts and political leaders who failed to listen to them agree on one thing: that we must 'fight' Covid-19. There's a consensus that we should target individual pathogens and suppress them - rather than address the reasons why our societies are so vulnerable. Arguing that this consensus is mistaken, Alex de Waal makes the case for a new democratic public health for the Anthropocene.
Über den Autor
Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

1. Following the Science, Following the Script

2. The Rage of Numbers: Cholera

3. Metamorphosis: Influenza

4. Who, Whom: HIV/AIDS

5. Imagined Unknowns: Pandemic X

6. Emancipatory Catastrophe? Covid-19

Notes

Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Acknowledgements1. Following the Science
Following the Script2. The Rage of Numbers: Cholera3. Metamorphosis: Influenza4. Who
Whom: HIV/AIDS5. Imagined Unknowns: Pandemic X6. Emancipatory Catastrophe? Covid-19NotesBibliography
ISBN-13: 9781509547807
ISBN-10: 1509547800
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: De Waal, Alex
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 206 x 138 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Alex De Waal
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
Artikel-ID: 119192888
Über den Autor
Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements

1. Following the Science, Following the Script

2. The Rage of Numbers: Cholera

3. Metamorphosis: Influenza

4. Who, Whom: HIV/AIDS

5. Imagined Unknowns: Pandemic X

6. Emancipatory Catastrophe? Covid-19

Notes

Bibliography
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Acknowledgements1. Following the Science
Following the Script2. The Rage of Numbers: Cholera3. Metamorphosis: Influenza4. Who
Whom: HIV/AIDS5. Imagined Unknowns: Pandemic X6. Emancipatory Catastrophe? Covid-19NotesBibliography
ISBN-13: 9781509547807
ISBN-10: 1509547800
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: De Waal, Alex
Hersteller: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Maße: 206 x 138 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Alex De Waal
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,4 kg
Artikel-ID: 119192888
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