@article{1387429,
      recid = {1387429},
      author = {Price-Smith, Andrew T.},
      title = {The health of nations : infectious disease, environmental  change, and their effects on national security and  development /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 220 pages) :},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {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 treatment. The global spread of  disease does not threaten the human species, but it  threatens the prosperity and stability of human  societies.In this pathbreaking book, Andrew Price-Smith  investigates the influence of infectious disease on  nations' stability and prosperity. He also provides a  theoretical and empirical foundation for the emerging field  of health security. Price-Smith shows that the global  proliferation of infectious disease will limit the ability  of states to govern themselves effectively and to maximize  their economic power. Because infectious disease can cause  poverty, intra-state violence and political instability may  increase. This in turn may have negative long-term effects  on regional economic and political stability, damaging  international relations and development.Price-Smith takes  an interdisciplinary approach to topics ranging from the  effects of global environmental change on the spread of  disease to the feedback loop between public health and the  strength of a nation's economy and its political stability  over time. As the proliferation of infectious disease  threatens international stability and the policy interests  of the United States in years to come, its study will  become an increasingly important subfield of political  science.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1387429},
}