David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz

Broschiertes Buch

Building the Worlds That Kill Us

Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History

Beschreibung

Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present.

Autor

David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University and the codirector of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School. He is author and editor of ten books, among them A Once Charitable Enterprise (Cambridge University Press, 1982, 2004; Princeton University Press, 1987), Hives of Sickness: Epidemics and Public Health in New York City (Rutgers University Press, 1995), and Health Care in America: Essays in Social History, and coauthor with Gerald Markowitz of Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in Twentieth Century America, (Princeton University Press, 1991). His newest book is Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (California, 2013). He is a member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780231200851
• ISBN-10: 0231200854
• Artikelnr.: 70523443