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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Healthby Laurie GarrettISBN 0198509952 (0-19-850995-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Healthby Laurie GarrettISBN 0786884401 (0-7868-8440-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health'Book summary:What do Russia, Zaire, Los Angeles, and--most likely--your community have in common? Each is woefully unprepared to deal with a major epidemic, whether it's caused by bioterrorism or by new or reemerging diseases resistant to antibiotics. After the publication of her critically acclaimed The Coming Plague, which looked at the reemergence of infectious diseases, Laurie Garrett decided to turn her highly honed reportorial skills to what she saw as the only solution--not medical technology, but public health. However, what she found in her travels was the collapse of public-health systems around the world, no comfort to a species purportedly sitting on a powder keg of disease. In Betrayal of Trust, Garrett exposes the shocking weaknesses in our medical system and the ramifications of a world suddenly much smaller, yet still far apart when it comes to wealth and attention to health.
With globalization, humans are more vulnerable to outbreaks from any part of the world; increasingly, the health of each nation depends on the health of all. Yet public health has been pushed down the list of priorities. In India, an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria, ridiculous in an age when the plague can easily be treated with antibiotics--that is, if you have a public-health system in place. India, busy putting its newfound wealth elsewhere, didn't. In Zaire, the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital, and would have kept up its rampage if the organization Doctors Without Borders hadn't stepped in, not with high-tech equipment or drugs, but with soap, protective gear, and clean water. Most of the world still doesn't have access to these basic public-health necessities. The 15 states of the former Soviet Union have seen the most astounding collapse in public health in the industrialized world. But during a cholera epidemic, officials refused to use the simple cure public-health workers have long relied on--oral rehydration therapy. Many of the problems in these nations can also be found in one degree or another in the U.S., where medical cures using expensive technology and drugs have been emphasized to the detriment of protecting human health. The result? More than 100,000 Americans die each year from infections caught in hospitals, and America has a disease safety net full of holes.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (for Newsday and others), Garrett has deftly turned what could have been a very dry subject into dramatic reportage, beginning with the eerie silence on the streets of Surat, India, where half the city's population (including doctors) fled the plague, while a thick white layer of DDT powdered the ground. Fascinating, frightening, and well-documented, Betrayal of Trust should be read not only by medical professionals and policymakers but the general public, and should galvanize a change in thinking and priorities. --Lesley Reed [via]
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- Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health: ISBN 0198526830 (0-19-852683-0)
Softcover, Oxford University Press - Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health: ISBN 0786865229 (0-7868-6522-9)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books - Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health: ISBN 0786884401 (0-7868-8440-1)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
- Betrayal of Trust : The Collapse of Global Public Health: ISBN 0198526830 (0-19-852683-0)
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The Coming Plagueby Laurie GarrettISBN 0140250913 (0-14-025091-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Coming Plague'Book summary:Where's your next disease coming from? From anywhere in the world--from overflowing sewage in Cairo, from a war zone in Rwanda, from an energy-efficient office building in California, from a pig farm in China or North Carolina. "Preparedness demands understanding" writes Pulitzer-winning journalist Laurie Garrett, and in this precursor to Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health she shows true understanding of the patterns lying beneath the new diseases in the headlines (AIDS, Lyme) and the old ones resurgent (tuberculosis, cholera). As the human population explodes, ecologies collapse and simplify, and disease organisms move into the gaps. As globalisation continues, diseases can move from one country to another as fast as an aeroplane can fly.
While the human race battles itself... the advantage moves to the microbes' court. They are our predators and they will be victorious if we, Homo sapiens, do not learn how to live in a rational global village that affords the microbes few opportunities.
Her picture is not entirely bleak: epidemics grow when a disease outbreak is amplified--by contaminated water supplies, by shared needles, by recirculated air, by prostitution--and controlling disease amplifiers is within our power, a matter of money, people and will. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via] 
The Coming Plague Pt. 1: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balanceby Laurie GarrettISBN 1853817643 (1-85381-764-3)
Hardcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Microbes Versus Mankind: The Coming Plagueby Laurie Garrett , Nancy Hoepli-Phalon, Karen RohanISBN 0871241692 (0-87124-169-2)
Softcover, Foreign Policy Assn
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