Betrayal of trust : the collapse of global public health / Laurie Garrett.
Author: Garrett, Laurie.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Hyperion, c2000.
ISBN: 0786865229
Description: xiv, 754 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject: World health.
Medical policy.
Epidemiology Popular works.
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.