Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York

Contents

v contents Acknowledgments vii About the Author ix introduction Public health and the American city 1 chapter 1 To Provide or Protect 17 chapter 2 Public health and the People 42 chapter 3 Dropping Dead 76 chapter 4 A Plague of Politics 107 chapter 5 city of Misfortune 142 chapter 6 chronicle of an epidemic Foretold 180 chapter 7 Threat levels 213 chapter 8 A New Public health Agenda 232 conclusion The Politics of Public health 257 Notes 267 References 305 index 333 ...