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Aug 15, 2001 · 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.
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- Laurie Garrett
- $21.99
- Hachette Books
Betrayal of Trust Researched analysis of disaster in the making in a world with no functioning public health infrastructure. In India in 1994, neglect of public health for the poor led to an outbreak of pneumonic plague; the once-dreaded disease is now easily treatable with antibiotics, but the failure of Indian authorities to quickly reach a ...
Jan 1, 2000 · Garrett discusses how non-potable water, environmental pollutants, preventable infections and diseases, and other ills of mankind which effective public health practices can prevent are factors in economic collapse.
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- Paperback
- Laurie Garrett
Garrett documents the collapse of pub-lic health in the former Soviet Union, which has experienced resurgent diphthe-ria, emergence of multi-drug resistant tu-berculosis and explosive epidemics...
- Kevin M. De Cock
- 2001
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health - Ebook written by Laurie Garrett. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download...
May 10, 2011 · 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.
Jan 16, 2002 · Prescient is the right word for Laurie Garrett's Betrayal of Trust. It would be an understatement to say that the US response to anthrax deaths has left much to be desired.
