American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics

by Martin Halliwell

Book Overview

A history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide.

Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often hailed as the best in the world, yet the public health emergencies of today often echo the public health emergencies of yesterday: consider the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520379403
• ISBN13: 9780520379404
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"