Book ID: CBB645621187

New Pandemics, Old Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives (2021)

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de Waal, Alex (Author)


Polity Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 304
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.

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Authors & Contributors
Iorio, Elena
Scott-Smith, Tom
Foss, Katherine A.
Cinzia Recca
Segata, Jean
Jonathan M. Berman
Concepts
Public health
Medicine and politics
Epidemics
Medicine and society
Medicine
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
20th century, late
Early modern
Places
Québec (Canada)
Italy
Brazil
United Kingdom
Sierra Leone
Myanmar (Burma)
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