In recent decades, new pathogens such as HIV, the Ebola virus, and the BSE prion have emerged, while old scourges such as tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria have grown increasingly resistant to treatm
Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2009. Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the rel
In recent decades, new pathogens such as HIV, the Ebola virus, and the BSE prion haveemerged, while old scourges such as tuberculosis, cholera, and malaria have grown increasinglyresistant to treatmen
The United States is addicted to crude oil. In this book, Andrew Price-Smith argues that this addiction has distorted the conduct of American foreign policy in profound and malign ways, resulting in i
Historians from Thucydides to William McNeill have pointed to the connections between disease and civil society. Political scientists have investigated the relationship of public health to governance
Germs without greencards! Where has that baby toy been? The global virus: problems that are just beginning to penetrate the public consciousness. Under the auspices of the nascent Program on Health an
