Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Edited by Andrew Lakoff

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May, 2010
Cloth, 160 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14696-8
$45.00 / £31.00

Web Features:

• Read Andrew Lakoff’s essay in The Huffington Post Our Energy Production System: Too Big to Fail.
• Read about the book in Politics and Society: A special resource for journalists.

Related Subjects

• International Affairs
• Security Studies

Series

• A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk)

About the Author

Andrew Lakoff is associate professor of anthropology, sociology and communication at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry, and coeditor, with Stephen J. Collier, of Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question. His current research concerns the intersection between global health and national security in the development of approaches to new biological and environmental threats.

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