|
|
Article: Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health.(Review)
- Article from:
- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- May 2, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. By Laurie Garrett. Hyperion, 754 pp., $30.00.
I THINK THE YOUNG MAN you just met has plague, the doctor told me. I was visiting one of my students at a community health clinic in Embudo, near Taos, New Mexico. The physician had called the highway patrol to take a blood sample to the state health laboratory. The next morning the diagnosis was confirmed.
I went with the doctor to the young man's house on his family's sheep ranch up in the mountains. A beautiful sheep dog lay on the porch. When the physician said that the boy probably had been infected by a flea from the dog, the father gave the ...