Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health - Brossura

Garrett, Laurie

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ISBN 10: 0786884401 ISBN 13: 9780786884407

Casa editrice: Hachette Book Group USA, 2001

Riassunto

The best-selling author of The Coming Plague examines the imminent crisis in global public health, demonstarting how a series of potentially devastating medical catastrophes--from Zaire's Ebola virus outbreak to India's pneumonic plague--could provide a worldwide threat to all human life. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Reads like a Robert Ludlum thriller ... This is a great book."―Washington Post

"On par with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ... This chilling exploration of the decline of public health should be taken seriously by leaders and policymakers around the world."―Publishers Weekly

L'autore:

Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who has been a health and science writer for Newsday since 1988, and a contributor to such publications as Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times, and Foreign Affairs. Previously, she was science correspondent for NPR. She is the only person to have received all of the top four awards in American journalism: the Pulitzer Prize (for which she has three times been a finalist), the George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award, the George C. Polk Award, and three times honored by the Overseas Press Club of America. Her book The Coming Plague (1994) was name "One of the Best Books of 1994" by both The New York Times Book Review and Library Journal, and was a national bestseller in 1995. Garrett lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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• Editore: Hachette Book Group USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0786884401
• ISBN 13: 9780786884407
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 781