In The Coming Plague, her New York Times bestselling account of the emergence of deadly new diseases around the world, Laurie Garrett brought her extraordinary reporting techniques to bear on an exploding health crisis. Now she takes readers around the world to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophes mark the death of public health, which taken together form a terrifying portrait of real global disaster in the making. Garrett takes us to India, where she rivetingly and meticulously examines ...
Read More
In The Coming Plague, her New York Times bestselling account of the emergence of deadly new diseases around the world, Laurie Garrett brought her extraordinary reporting techniques to bear on an exploding health crisis. Now she takes readers around the world to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophes mark the death of public health, which taken together form a terrifying portrait of real global disaster in the making. Garrett takes us to India, where she rivetingly and meticulously examines the course of the country's pneumonic plague; to Zaire, where the Ebola virus is still largely unchecked; to Russia, where bad policy and a collapsing society have made for staggering setbacks in all areas of public health; and back to the U.S., where a drastically reduced public health system struggles, often unsuccessfully, to cope with new global threats to the nation's food, water, hospitals, and communities. Written with the same thrilling, minute-by-minute narrative force that made The Coming Plague as exciting as it was important, Betrayal of Trust is a monumental achievement and a heartstopping account of the other side of globalization, and why it may be too late to avert a full-out crisis.
Read Less
Add this copy of Betrayal of Trust: the Collapse of Global Public Health to cart. $26.44, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Soundelux Audio Pub.
