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Science 12 January 2001:
Vol. 291. no. 5502, p. 258
DOI: 10.1126/science.1055103
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Things Fall Apart

A review by Robert E. Shope

Betrayal of Trust The Collapse of Global Public Health
Laurie Garrett
Hyperion, New York, 2000. 768 pp. $30, C$42.95, £22.95. ISBN 0-7868-6522-9.

Through meticulously researched and engagingly written accounts of public health crises in India, the Congo, the former Soviet Union, and three sites in the United States, Garrett documents the frightening deterioration of the world's infrastructure for preventive medicine.
The author is at the Center for Tropical Diseases, 301 University Boulevard, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555-0609, USA. E-mail: rshope{at}utmb.edu

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