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 ...
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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...
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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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