Originally published: New York: Hyperion, 2000; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
PNEUMONIC PLAGUE HITS INDIA AND THE WORLD ILL RESPONDS ; AN EBOLA VIRUS EPIDEMIC IN ZAIRE PROVES PUBLIC HEALTH AND CORRUPTION CANNOT CO-EXIST ; THE COLLAPSE OF ALL SEMBLENCES OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE FORMER SOVIET REPUBLICS ; THE AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE IN AN AGE OF ANTIGOVERNMENTALISM ; THREATENING BIOLOGICAL TERRORISM AND PUBLIC HEALTH ; THE CHANGING FACE OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND FUTURE GLOBAL PROPHYLAXIS
This is a study of global public health. Plague, pollution and prostitution are all examined in turn. The author shows how basic trust in public health systems has collapsed and how our global public health system has been systematically destroyed.