劳丽·加勒特（Laurie Garrett），美国知名防疫专家，普利策新闻奖获奖记者，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，美国外交关系协会全球卫生高级研究员。唯一获得普利策奖（曾三次入围该奖项决选名单）、乔治·福斯特·皮博迪奖、乔治·波尔卡新闻奖等美国新闻界所有顶级大奖的人。

劳丽·加勒特（Laurie Garrett），美国知名防疫专家，普利策新闻奖获奖记者，《纽约时报》畅销书作家，美国外交关系协会全球卫生高级研究员。唯一获得普利策奖（曾三次入围该奖项决选名单）、乔治·福斯特·皮博迪奖、乔治·波尔卡新闻奖等美国新闻界所有顶级大奖的人。

在线阅读本书 In this meticulously researched and ultimately explosive new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the New York Times bestseller The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes readers across the globe to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophes form a terrifying portrait of real global disaster in the making.

This paperback edition of George Rosen's classic account of the history of public health supplements the original text with Elizabeth Fee's introduction and Edward T. Morman's biographical essay and bibliography.

Protecting and promoting health is inherently a political endeavor that requires a sophisticated understanding of the distribution and use of power. Yet while the global nature of health is widely recognized, its political nature is less well understood. In recent decades, the interdisciplinary field of global health politics has emerged to demonstrate the interconnections of h...(展开全部)

Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.

Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.

This book, based on extensive original research, traces the development of China’s public health system, showing how advances in public health have been an integral part of China’s rise. It outlines the phenomenal improvements in public health, for example the increase in life expectancy from 38 in 1949 to 73 in 2010; relates developments in public health to prevailing politica...(展开全部)