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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Health
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1
EAN: 9780198509950
ISBN: 0198509952
Label: Oxford University Press
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 477
Publication Date: 2001-06
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Studio: Oxford University Press
Editorial Review:
"On September 11, 2001, a terrorist assault upon New York City forever changed this skyline, took the lives of thousands of innocent people and served as a horrible warning of things yet to come. Our world will never again be the same. Discussions of such unfathomably horrific events as a bioterrorist assault are no longer academic, mere science fiction or far-fetched nightmares. We are there. We owe it to all those who lost their lives in Pennsylvania, Washington DC and New York City on September 11 to take these issues seriously, be prepared and, when possible, be preemptive." Laurie Garrett From the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Coming Plague (Penguin, 1996), comes an explosive new work on a full-blown global health crisis in the making. Garrett takes readers around the world to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophies mark the death of public health and taken together form a terrifying portrait of real global disaster in the making. Public health is a bond between a government and its people and if either side betrays that trust the sytem collapses like a house of cards. Garrett illustrates how over the last twenty years this trust has frayed and our global public health system systematically destroyed. With globalization, no person is safe from anti-biotic resistant superbugs, epidemic or biowar. Garrett takes us to India, where an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria. To Zaire where the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital. The 15 States of the former Soviet Union have seen the most astounding collapse in public health in the industrialised world. She also exposes the increasingly chaotic, ungoverned world of biological terrorism, a threat we have yet to fully comprehend. Betrayal of Trust is a monumental achievement and a wake-up call to all those involved in public health.
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