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In sickness and in power : illness in heads of government during the last 100 years / David Owen.

Title: In sickness and in power : illness in heads of government during the last 100 years / David Owen.
Author: Owen, David, 1938-
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2008.

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Description

xxiv, 420 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The course of modern world history has been critically shaped by the physical and mental illnesses of heads of state, sometimes in the public eye, but usually in secrecy. Democratic politicians as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Pompidou, Mitterrand, Blair, George W. Bush, Chirac, and Sharon all lied about their health." "Owen argues that a medically definable condition called Hubris Syndrome affects some heads of government the longer they stay in office or after a specific triggering event such as 9/11. Lord Owen makes the cases that democratic societies need to implement new procedures for dealing with illness in their own heads of government, and that they need to empower the United Nations to use new procedures and means for removing despots whose behavior becomes so hubristic as to pose a grave threat to their own people or the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Illness in heads of government during the last 100 years

Subjects

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-392) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1901-1953 -- 1953-2007 -- Prime Minister Eden's illness and Suez -- President Kennedy's health -- The Shah's secret illness -- President Mitterrand's prostate cancer -- Bush, Blair and the war in Iraq -- Safeguarding against illness in heads of government -- Conclusion.

ISBN

9780313360053 (alk. paper)
0313360057 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008013655

OCLC

214300078
SCSB-9937359

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library