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

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

Alex de Waal

304 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health politics challenging informative medium-paced
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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 diseas...

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