2008, ISBN: 9780415370134

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker and Company, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Life is getting back to normal f… Meer...

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker and Company, 1995. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Life is getting back to normal for Dr. Sam Turner: She's at home in Wyoming with her husband, Derek, who works for the CIA (and who is her late husband's son), their own child, her herd of buffalo, and her job as Sheridan's medical examiner. There's work being done on the house, Derek is busily trying to find a nanny for the baby, the cops are still ticketing her at every opportunity, and the body of the teenage boy on the steel table in front of her has been ravaged by a killer that shouldn't exist. The cause of death is smallpox, and the disease was declared eradicated in 1977. Six hundred test tubes of the frozen virus were to be destroyed on December 31, 1993, although some scientists fought the order. Now Sam has to fight to be believed... and to discover who has unleashed the plague - again. ine, unread, first edition, first printing,, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M119, Walker and Company, 1995, 5, New York: Free Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 303pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Orange paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in metallic orange. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The universal human instinct is to run from an outbreak of disease like Ebola. These doctors run toward it. Their job is to stop epidemics from happening. They are the disease detective corps of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the federal agency that tracks and tries to prevent disease outbreaks and bioterrorist attacks around the world. They are formally called the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS)a group founded more than fifty years ago out of fear that the Korean War might bring the use of biological weaponsand, like intelligence operatives in the traditional sense, they perform their work largely in anonymity. They are not household names, but over the years they were first to confront the outbreaks that became known as hantavirus, Ebola, and AIDS. Every day they work to protect us by hunting down the deadly threats that we forget until they dominate our headlines, West Nile virus, anthrax, and SARS among others. In this riveting narrative, Maryn McKennathe only journalist ever given full access to the EIS in its fifty-three-year historyfollows the first class of disease detectives to come to the CDC after September 11, the first to confront not just naturally occurring outbreaks but the man-made threat of bioterrorism. They are talented researchersmany with young familieswho trade two years of low pay and extremely long hours for the chance to be part of the group that are on the frontlines, in the yellow suits and masks, that has helped eradicate smallpox, push back polio, and solve the first major outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease, toxic shock syndrome, and E. coli O157 and works to battle every new disease before it becomes an epidemic. Urgent, exhilarating, and compelling, Beating Back the Devil takes you inside the world of these medical detectives who are trying to stop the next epidemicbefore the epidemics stop us.(Publisher)., Free Press, 2004, 3, US: Routledge, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations specialized agen cy for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation f or over sixty years. With origins dating from the nineteenth century, WHO's mandate is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of h ealth. The huge challenge of fulfilling this objective has not only require d high-level technical skills, but has led the organization to engage with a broad range of political and economic interests. WHO has enjoyed many hig h-profile successes such as the global eradication of smallpox and SARS, an d ongoing campaigns against polio and other diseases. On other issues, such as essential drugs, tobacco control and diet and nutrition, efforts to tac kle the broader determinants of health has brought the organization into co ntact with issues such as globalization, poverty, social justice and human rights. Kelley Lee analyzes the WHO's role in international cooperation, examining its changing structures, key programmes and individuals. Of particular focus are the challenges WHO has faced in recent years given the emergence of other global health initiatives and how WHO has sought to remain effective as the "world's health conscience" within an increasingly complex global context., Routledge, 2008, 3<

2008, ISBN: 0415370132

[EAN: 9780415370134], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Routledge, US], A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlightin… Meer...

[EAN: 9780415370134], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Routledge, US], A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations specialized agen cy for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation f or over sixty years. With origins dating from the nineteenth century, WHO's mandate is the attainment by all people of the highest possible level of h ealth. The huge challenge of fulfilling this objective has not only require d high-level technical skills, but has led the organization to engage with a broad range of political and economic interests. WHO has enjoyed many hig h-profile successes such as the global eradication of smallpox and SARS, an d ongoing campaigns against polio and other diseases. On other issues, such as essential drugs, tobacco control and diet and nutrition, efforts to tac kle the broader determinants of health has brought the organization into co ntact with issues such as globalization, poverty, social justice and human rights. Kelley Lee analyzes the WHO's role in international cooperation, examining its changing structures, key programmes and individuals. Of particular focus are the challenges WHO has faced in recent years given the emergence of other global health initiatives and how WHO has sought to remain effective as the "world's health conscience" within an increasingly complex global context., Books<