Table of Contents:
  • Filth and decay: Pneumonic plague hits India and the world ill responds
  • Landa-Landa: an Ebola virus epidemic in Zaire proves public health is imperiled by corruption
  • Bourgeois physiology: the collapse of all semblances of public health in the former Soviet Socialist Republics
  • Preferring anarchy and class disparity: the American public health infrastructure in an age of antigovernmentalism
  • Biowar : threatening biological terrorism and public health
  • Epilogue: the changing face of public health and future global prophylaxis.