Emerging Illnesses and Society
Subtitle: Negotiating the Public Health Agenda
Contributors: Randall M. Packard (Editor); Ruth L. Berkelman (Editor); Howard Frumkin (Editor); Peter J. Brown (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780801879425
Subjects: Personal & public health; Social medicine; History; Congresses; Sociology - Urban; Social Science; Medical / Nursing; Sociology; Public Policy - General; Health Care Delivery; Medical / History; Health; Public Health
First sentence: A series of publications in the early 1990s, including the Institute of Medicine's Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in the United States and Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, drew public attention to the rising threat of newly emerging diseases.