In fresh Pandemics,former Politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives, Alex de Waal offers a fresh political history of epidemics, or identifying and critiquing a repeated mobilisation of the ‘war metaphor’ of pandemic disease to show our persistent (mis-)framing of biological illness. The book is an extremely comprehensive and fascinating history of previous epidemics,their metaphors and manifestations, […]
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