After four decades of assuming that the conquest of infectious diseases was imminent, people on all continents now find themselves besieged. The water we drink is improperly purified, the air we breathe potentially deadly, and the food we eat possibly poisonous. What went wrong? This book follows the doctors and scientists in their 50 year battle ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laurie Garrett challenges policy makers to create high-quality public health programs that are accessible to all populations. In this argument, she points out several historical events in which plagues broke out in nations where governments suddenly denied their citizens access to health care, such as India's 1994 ...
This is a study of a full-blown global health crisis in the making. Laurie Garrett takes readers around the world to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophies marks the death of public health and taken together form a portrait of real global disaster in the making. She argues that public health is a bond between a ...
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