Epidemics
By: David Haugen and Susan Musser, book editors
Series: Opposing viewpoints series; Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Gale cengage Learning/Greenhaven Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Detroit [Mich.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780737752199; 9780737752205
Subjects: Epidemics; Epidemiology
Description: This volume explores topics relating to epidemics by presenting varied expert opinions that examine many of the different aspects that comprise these issues. The viewpoints are selected from a wide range of highly respected and often hard-to-find sources and publications. Allows the reader to attain the higher-level critical thinking and reading skills that are essential in a culture of diverse and contradictory opinions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Infectious diseases are a threat to America and the world / Margaret A. Hamburg et al.; title: The media exaggerate the risks of infectious diseases / Colin Schultz; title: The AIDS pandemic is still a global health threat / Josh Ruxin; title: The AIDS pandemic can be eliminated / Clare Wilson; title: The threat of a heterosexual AIDS pandemic is over / Jeremy Laurance; title: The obesity epidemic poses a global health threat / Rita E. Carey; title: The obesity epidemic is a myth / Patrick Basham and John Luik; title: The Indian superbug NDM-1 is a growing health threat / Michael Hanlon; title: H1N1 was never a serious threat to world health / Daniel J. Ncayiyana; title: H1N1 could have posed a serious threat to world health / Mark Honigsbaum; title: The government manufactured the H1N1 threat / Karen DeCoster; title: The government did not manufacture the H1N1 threat / Sam Vaknin; title: Pharmaceutical companies paid health experts to hype the H1N1 threat / Rudi C. Loehwing; title: Health experts were not paid to hype the H1N1 threat / Debora MacKenzie; title: Requiring mandatory vaccination is dangerous / Associated Press; title: Vaccines are safe and effective / Brenda L. Bartlett and Stephen K. Tyring; title: Compelling evidence shows that vaccines trigger autism / J.B. Handley; title: Vaccines do not cause autism / Kelley King Heyworth; title: Vaccination refusal is a right to safeguard personal health / Sherri Tenpenny; title: Vaccination refusal endangers public health / Saad B. Omer et al.; title: Federal and state authorities are not prepared for a serious pandemic / Stephen E. Flynn and Irwin Redlener; title: Americans' concerns about vaccination must be overcome to prepare for future pandemics / Gillian K. SteelFisher et al.; title: America is not prepared for bioterrorism attacks / Tara O'Toole; title: America is better prepared for bioterrorism attacks / Aaron Katz, Andrea B. Staiti, and Kelly L. MacKenzie; title: Nations have not shown willingness to overcome self-interest in fighting pandemics / John Barry.