Contagion

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease [Kindle Edition]

Author: Mark Harrison | Language: English | ISBN: B00942HO0E | Format: PDF, EPUB

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Much as we take comfort in the belief that modern medicine and public health tactics can protect us from horrifying contagious diseases, such faith is dangerously unfounded. So demonstrates Mark Harrison in this pathbreaking investigation of the intimate connections between trade and disease throughout modern history. For centuries commerce has been the single most important factor in spreading diseases to different parts of the world, the author shows, and today the same is true. But in today's global world, commodities and germs are circulating with unprecedented speed.

Beginning with the plagues that ravaged Eurasia in the fourteenth century, Harrison charts both the passage of disease and the desperate measures to prevent it. He examines the emergence of public health in the Western world, its subsequent development elsewhere, and a recurring pattern of misappropriation of quarantines, embargoes, and other sanitary measures for political or economic gain—even for use as weapons of war. In concluding chapters the author exposes the weaknesses of today's public health regulations—a set of rules that not only disrupt the global economy but also fail to protect the public from the afflictions of trade-borne disease. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease [Kindle Edition]

• File Size: 2072 KB
• Print Length: 427 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0300123574
• Publisher: Yale University Press (January 8, 2013)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00942HO0E
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #775,397 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Mark Harrison clearly articulates the close relationship that trade and contagion have had since the 14th century CE. Mr. Harrison thoroughly analyzes the policies that first nations and then countries have designed and implemented to try to protect themselves against the nefarious effects of diseases on their respective economies and polities. The author does a great job in showing how the modern public health system first emerged in the Western World and subsequently elsewhere. To his credit, Mr. Harrison reminds his audience that the persistent abuse of sanitary measures for economic and political gain is nothing new on the horizon. In summary, Mr. Harrison succeeds in making the inseparable couple of contagion and trade a topic of interest to a wide audience.

By Serge J. Van Steenkiste

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