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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826314903321

Autore

Colgrove James Keith

Titolo

Epidemic city : the politics of public health in New York / / James Colgrove

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Russell Sage Foundation, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

1-61044-708-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Disciplina

362.109747/1

Soggetti

Medical policy - New York (State) - New York

Public health - New York (State) - New York

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction - Public Health and the American City; Chapter 1 - To Provide or Protect; Chapter 2 - Public Health and the People; Chapter 3 - Dropping Dead; Chapter 4 - A Plague of Politics; Chapter 5 - City of Misfortune; Chapter 6 - Chronicle of an Epidemic Foretold; Chapter 7 - Threat Levels; Chapter 8 - A New Public Health Agenda; Conclusion - The Politics of Public Health; Notes; References; Index