Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (A Columbia / SSRC Book) Reviews

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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-10-21
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 023114606X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In recent years, new disease threats—such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis—have garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have come not only from public health and medicine but also from such fields as emergency management, national security, and global humanitarianism. This volume provides a map of this complex and rapidly transforming terrain. The editors focus on how experts, public officials, and health practitioners work to define what it means to "secure health" through concrete practices such as global humanitarian logistics, pandemic preparedness measures, vaccination campaigns, and attempts to regulate potentially dangerous new biotechnologies.As the contributions show, despite impressive activity in these areas, the field of "biosecurity interventions" remains unstable. Many basic questions are only beginning to be addressed: Download Biosecurity Interventions for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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Health at Risk: America's Ailing Health System--and How to Heal It (A Columbia / SSRC Book (Privatization of Risk))

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Release: 2008-11-06
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0231146035
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In this volume, the nation's leading advisors on health policy and financing appraise America's ailing healthcare system and suggest reasonable approaches to its rehabilitation. Each chapter confronts a major challenge to the country's health security, from runaway costs and uneven quality of care to declining levels of insurance coverage, medical bankruptcy, and the growing enthusiasm for health plans that put patients in charge of risk and cost. Bringing the latest research to bear on these issues, contributors diagnose the problems of our present system and offer treatments grounded in extensive experience. Free of bias and rhetoric, Health at Risk is an invaluable tool for those who are concerned with the current state of healthcare and are eager to effect change. Download Health at Risk for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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