Betrayal of trust : the collapse of global public health / Laurie Garrett.

New York : Hyperion, [2000], ©2000.

xiv, 754 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Filth and decay: Pneumonic plague hits India and the world ill responds -- Landa-Landa: an Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire proves public health is imperiled by corruption -- Bourgeois physiology: the collapse of all semblances of public health in the former Soviet Socialist Republics -- Preferring anarchy and class disparity: the American public health infrastructure in an age of antigovernmentalism -- Biowar : threatening biological terrorism and public health -- Epilogue: the changing face of public health and future global prophylaxis.