The new world order - Nosological principles and epidemiological techniques from Comte to Huntington

Journal/Book: Int Sociol. 1996; 11: 6 Bonhill Street, London, England EC2A 4PU. Sage Publications Ltd. 427-440.

Abstract: At the beginning of the 18th century, Comte asked: 'How is it possible to avoid chaos and achieve order through stability?' At the end of 20th century, we are facing civil wars, ethnic cleansing, poverty and world-wide forced migration, growing numbers of refugees of wars and growing numbers of displaced persons. For the post-modem strategists, the question is still the same. The author finds that public health and then psychiatry have traditionally served as models for biopolitics. Nowadays, the cure for 'world pathology' is clearly the same as it was during the first and second demographic and pathologic transition: using therapeutic spacing, isolation, enforced sequestration, 'safe zones', 'protected areas' and quarantines as tools for normalization of 'deviant', 'abnormal' and 'sick' societies.

Note: Article Oreskovic S, Univ Zagreb, Sch Med, Andrija Stampar Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Med Sociol & Hlth Econ, Rockefellerova 4, HR-10000 Zagreb, CROATIA

Keyword(s): Bosnia; ethnic conflict; international relations; multiracial societies; social pathology

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