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Winner of the George C. Polk Award, Best Book of 2000.
Winner of the Madeline Dane Ross Award for Reporting on the Human Condition, given by the Overseas Press Club of America, 2001.
Finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award.
In this meticulously researched and ultimately explosive new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial global issue of our time. She asks: Is our collective health in a state of decline? If so, how dire is this crisis, and has the public health system itself contributed to it? Using riveting detail and finely honed storytelling, Garrett exposes the underbelly of the world's globalization to find out if it can still be assumed that government can and will protect the people's health, or if that trust has been irrevocably broken.
Reviews
"This book is a twin, in many ways, of the author's best-selling The Coming Plague -- interesting, sprawling, heavily anecdotal, and amply footnoted . . . Once extracted, however, the message remains an important one: old scourges (tuberculosis and syphilis) are alive and all too well and newer ones (AIDS, most notably) have yet to abate their force . . . a useful warning that globalization may have a very dark side indeed." --Foreign Affairs
"One of the best Sci Tech books of 2000 . . . Garrett argues that protecting its citizens' health is the responsibility of any government." --Library Journal "On a par with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring . . . . This chilling exploration of the decline of public health should be taken seriously by leaders and policymakers around the world." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A well-crafted and meticulously documented treatise on global public health." --Washington Post
"After four years of intensive research, Garrett has produced a copiously footnoted volume that traces public health through an engaging series of events and personal experiences -- her own and others -- and warns of an impending crisis." --USA Today
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Also available as a Hyperion audiobook