Betrayal of trust
Subtitle: the collapse of global public health
By: Laurie Garrett.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 781
Subjects: World health; Medical policy; Epidemiology -- Popular works
Genres: Popular works.
Notes: Notes: p. [593]-760.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Filth and decay: Pneumonic plague hits India and the world ill responds; title: Landa-Landa: an Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire proves public health is imperiled by corruption; title: Bourgeois physiology: the collapse of all semblances of public health in the former Soviet Socialist Republics; title: Preferring anarchy and class disparity: the American public health infrastructure in an age of antigovernmentalism; title: Biowar : threatening biological terrorism and public health; title: Epilogue: the changing face of public health and future global prophylaxis.