THE NEW-WORLD ORDER - NOSOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES AND EPIDEMIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES FROM COMTE TO HUNTINGTON

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 20 th century, we are facing civil wars, ethnic cleansing, poverty and wo rld-wide forced migration, growing numbers of refugees of wars and gro wing numbers of displaced persons. For the post-modem strategists, the question is still the same. The author finds that public health and t hen psychiatry have traditionally served as models for biopolitics. No wadays, the cure for 'world pathology' is clearly the same as it was d uring the first and second demographic and pathologic transition: usin g therapeutic spacing, isolation, enforced sequestration, 'safe zones' , 'protected areas' and quarantines as tools for normalization of 'dev iant', 'abnormal' and 'sick' societies.