This is a study of a full-blown global health crisis in the making. Laurie Garrett takes readers around the world to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophies marks the death of public health and taken together form a portrait of real global disaster in the making. She argues that public health is a bond between a government and its people and if either side betrays that trust the system collapses like a house of cards. The book also aims to illustrate how, since 1980, this trust has frayed and our global public health system been systematically destroyed. It contends that, with globalization, no person is safe from antibiotic resistant superbugs, epidemic or biowar. Garrett takes the reader to India, where an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria; to Zaire where the deadly ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital, and to the 15 states of the former Soviet Union have seen the collapse in their public health system. She also explores the increasingly chaotic, ungoverned world of biological terrorism.
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`This book reads like a Robert Ludlum thriller. This is a great book.' Washington Post
`At its core Betrayal of Trust is a call for international activism long overdue. May its readers include policymakers, finance ministers and global philanthropists. With Garrett's glaring challenge before them, they too hold the power to save lives.' Scientific American
`Her message throughout, is a momentous one that is delivered persuasively.' New York Times
`On a par with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this chilling exploration of the decline of public health should be taken seriously by leaders and policy makers around the world... an accessible and prodigiously researched analysis of disaster in the making in a world with no functioning public health infrastructure.' Publisher's Weekly
`The future as outlined by Laurie Garrett is grim, unless all of us and our political leaders take heed of her lessons.' Washington Post
`In betrayal of Trust Garrett tells a great story... a staggering new book' Newsday
`Garrett has written a really splendid public health book' BMJ
`Overall, this is a fascinating read for those interested in the future of public health and raises many important concerns.' International Journal of Epidemiology
`At its core Betrayal of Trust is a call for international activism long overdue. May its readers include policymakers, finance ministers and global philanthropists. With Garrett's glaring challenge before them, they too hold the power to save lives.' Scientific American
`Her message throughout, is a momentous one that is delivered persuasively.' New York Times
`On a par with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, this chilling exploration of the decline of public health should be taken seriously by leaders and policy makers around the world... an accessible and prodigiously researched analysis of disaster in the making in a world with no functioning public health infrastructure.' Publisher's Weekly
`The future as outlined by Laurie Garrett is grim, unless all of us and our political leaders take heed of her lessons.' Washington Post
`In betrayal of Trust Garrett tells a great story... a staggering new book' Newsday
`Garrett has written a really splendid public health book' BMJ
`Overall, this is a fascinating read for those interested in the future of public health and raises many important concerns.' International Journal of Epidemiology
About the Author
Laurie Garrett, is a Pulizer Prize-winning reporter who has been a health and science writer for Newsday since 1988, and a frequent contributor to such publications as The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. He book The Coming Plague (1994) was named One of the best books of 1994' by The New York Times Book review. Garrett lives in New York City.
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