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Betrayal of trust : the collapse of global public health / Laurie Garrett
Bib ID 530492
Format BookBook
Author
Garrett, Laurie
 
Description New York : Hyperion, c2000 
xiv, 754 p. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 0786865229 :  0786865229  0786884401 (pbk.)  0786865229 (hbk.) 
Summary

"Garrett exposes the underbelly of the world's globalization: If India's economy is prospering, for example, how can there coexist with this new affluence an outbreak of pneumonic plague, a disease long thought to have been relegated to the history books? In Russia, alcoholism, drug addiction, TB, and the effects of such catastrophes as Chernobyl have shortened life expectancy for the average man by a full decade since 1991. In the United States, we face new "superstrains" of diseases we thought had been wiped out long ago. In addition, global travel has made it nearly impossible to keep what were once considered "third world diseases" out of our country. Has our public health system let us down, and if so, how serious is the danger to our collective health?"--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • Filth and decay: Pneumonic plague hits India and the world illresponds
  • Landa-Landa: an Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire proves public healthis imperiled by corruption
  • Bourgeois physiology: the collapse of allsemblances of public health in the former Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Preferring anarchy and class disparity: the American public healthinfrastructure in an age of antigovernmentalism
  • Biowar : threateningbiological terrorism and public health
  • Epilogue: the changing face of public health and future global prophylaxis.
 
Notes

Notes: p. [587]-740.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects World health.  |  Medical policy.  |  Epidemiology - Popular works.
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