Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health (Paperback)

by Laurie Garrett

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The best-selling author of The Coming Plague examines the imminent crisis in global public health, demonstarting how a series of potentially devastating medical catastrophes--from Zaire's Ebola virus outbreak to India's pneumonic plague--could provide a worldwide threat to all human life. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780786884407
  • ISBN-10: 0786884401
  • Publisher: Hyperion Books
  • Date: August 2001
  • Page Count: 768

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Preface xi
Dr. Steven M. Wolinsky
Introduction 1(14)
Filth and Decay
15(35)
Pneumonic plague hits India and the world ill responds
Landa-Landa
50(72)
An Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire proves public health is imperiled by corruption
Bourgeois Physiology
122(146)
The collapse of all semblances of public health in the former Soviet Socialist Republics
Preferring Anarchy and Class Disparity
268(218)
The American public health infrastructure in an age of antigovernmentalism
Biowar
486(65)
Threatening biological terrorism and public health
Epilogue
551(42)
The changing face of public health and future global prophylaxis
Notes 593(168)
Index 761

 

2 Ratings

  • ISBN: 9780786884407
  • Publisher: Hyperion Books
  • Date: August 2001
  • Page Count: 768
  • Availability: In stock. Ships in 24 hours.