New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives by de Waal, Alex

New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives

New Pandemics, Old Politics explores how the modern world adopted a martial script to deal with epidemic...
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Author: Alex de Waal
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Language: English
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New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives by de Waal, Alex

New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives

€48,84

New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and Its Alternatives

€48,84
Author: Alex de Waal
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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.



Author: Alex de Waal
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 06/21/2021
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781509547807

About the Author
Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School at Tufts University.

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