Disease Prevention As Social Change: The State, Society, and Public Health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada

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Edition: 1
Release: 2009-04
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0871546450
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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From mad-cow disease and E. coli-tainted spinach in the food supply to anthrax scares and fears of a bird flu pandemic, national health threats are a perennial fact of American life. Yet not all crises receive the level of attention they seem to merit. The marked contrast between the U.S. government's rapid response to the anthrax outbreak of 2001 and years of federal inaction on the spread of AIDS among gay men and intravenous drug users underscores the influence of politics and public attitudes in shaping the nation's response to health threats. In Disease Prevention as Social Change, sociologist Constance Nathanson argues that public health is inherently political, and explores the social struggles behind public health interventions by the governments of four industrialized democracies. Nathanson shows how public health policies emerge out of battles over power and ideology, in which social reformers clash with powerful interests, from dairy farmers to t Download Disease Prevention As Social Change for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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