Betrayal of trust : the collapse of global public health / Laurie Garrett.

Author/creator Garrett, Laurie
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Hyperion, ©2000.
Descriptionxiv, 754 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Filth and decay: Pneumonic plague hits India and the world ill responds -- Landa-Landa: an Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire proves public health is imperiled by corruption -- Bourgeois physiology: the collapse of all semblances of public health in the former Soviet Socialist Republics -- Preferring anarchy and class disparity: the American public health infrastructure in an age of antigovernmentalism -- Biowar : threatening biological terrorism and public health -- Epilogue: the changing face of public health and future global prophylaxis.
General noteNotes: p. [587]-740.
General noteIncludes index.
Acquisitions source Laupus- E. Daniel Shingleton Public Health Collection
LCCN 00033425
ISBN0786865229