Bio-imperialism. Disease, terror and the construction of national fragility: by Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis, New Brunswick, London, Camden and Newark, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 2021, Pp 228+ix, paperback $29.95.

By contrast with dominant opinion in global health, D'Arcangelis argues that national sovereignty offers an important legal and political mechanism for reclaiming power over health outcomes and resources. Gwen Shuni D'Arcangelis has written a concise and powerful book on the injustices and asymmetries of global health security. Still more fundamental was the framing of security strategy in terms of health protection, which at its most extreme provided a justification for the invasion of Iraq in 2003 at massive cost to life and health. [Extracted from the article]