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

by Andrew T. Price-Smith

Book Overview

An analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, SARS, and Mad Cow Disease.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262662035
• ISBN13: 9780262662031
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher