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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786884407)
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xIn this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic.
The New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial global issue of our time in this eye-opening book. She asks: is our collective health in a state of decline? If so, how dire is this crisis and has the public health system itself contributed to it? Using riveting detail and finely-honed storytelling, exploring outbreaks around the world, Garrett exposes the underbelly of the world's globalization to find out if it can still be assumed that government can and will protect the people's health, or if that trust has been irrevocably broken.
"A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one . . . a sober, scary book that not only limns the dangers posed by emerging diseases but also raises serious questions about two centuries' worth of Enlightenment beliefs in science and technology and progress." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Author: Laurie Garrett
ISBN-10: 0786884401
ISBN-13: 9780786884407
Publisher: Hachette Books
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2001
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 2.20d
Award: Helen Bernstein Book Award - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/11/2001 pg. 32
The New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial global issue of our time in this eye-opening book. She asks: is our collective health in a state of decline? If so, how dire is this crisis and has the public health system itself contributed to it? Using riveting detail and finely-honed storytelling, exploring outbreaks around the world, Garrett exposes the underbelly of the world's globalization to find out if it can still be assumed that government can and will protect the people's health, or if that trust has been irrevocably broken.
"A frightening vision of the future and a deeply unsettling one . . . a sober, scary book that not only limns the dangers posed by emerging diseases but also raises serious questions about two centuries' worth of Enlightenment beliefs in science and technology and progress." -- Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Author: Laurie Garrett
ISBN-10: 0786884401
ISBN-13: 9780786884407
Publisher: Hachette Books
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2001
Pages: 768
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 2.20d
Award: Helen Bernstein Book Award - Nominee
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/11/2001 pg. 32
By Laurie Garrett
xSince 2004, Laurie Garrett has been a Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Garrett is the New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1994) and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000). She has appeared frequently on national television programs, including Nightline, PBS NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Pulitzer Prize and Peabody and Polk awards.
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