Garret Laurie. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health

New York: Hyperion, 2000. — 800 p. — ISBN: 0-7868-6522-9.In this "meticulously researched" account, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic. The New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial global issue of our time in this eye-opening book. She asks: is our collective health in a state of decline? If so, how dire is this crisis and has the public health system itself contributed to it? Using riveting detail and finely-honed storytelling, exploring outbreaks around the world, Garrett exposes the underbelly of the world's globalization to find out if it can still be assumed that government can and will protect the people's health, or if that trust has been irrevocably broken.Preface by Dr. Steven M. Wolinsky, Northwestern University Medicine SchoolFilth and Decay: Pneumonic plague hits India and the world ill responds
Landa-Landa: An Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire proves public health is imperiled by corruption.
Bourgeois Physiology: The collapse of all semblances of public health in the former Soviet Socialist Republics
Preferring Anarchy and Class Disparity: The American public health infrastructure in an age of antigovernmentalism
Biowar: Threatening biological terrorism and public healthEpilogue: The changing face of public health and future global prophylaxisNotes
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