Betrayal of Trust, Laurie Garrett
Betrayal of Trust, Laurie Garrett
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Betrayal of Trust
The Collapse of Global Public Health

Author: Laurie Garrett

Narrator: Randye Kaye

Unabridged: 35 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/24/2020

Synopsis

In this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize–winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial global issue of our time in this eye-opening book. 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, exploring outbreaks around the world, 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.

About Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett has received the Pulitzer Prize, Peabody, George C. Polk (twice), and four Overseas Press Club Awards for her work as a journalist and author. Books by Garrett include the bestsellers The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. Garrett grew up in Los Angeles, graduated with honors from the University of California in Santa Cruz, and was named Alum of the Year in 1995, and one of the Forty Greatest Alums in 2010. She did graduate work in immunology, research at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, and was a postgraduate Fellow in the Harvard School of Public Health. She began her journalism career at KPFA radio in Berkeley, followed by freelancing work in sub-Saharan Africa. In the 1980s she was a science correspondent for National Public Radio, and during the 1990s she worked both as a science and foreign reporter for Newsday in New York.

Since 2004 Garrett has been Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. She lives in Brooklyn, and is an avid urban cyclist.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rebecca X on September 13, 2008

I have a great deal of respect for Laurie Garrett's work. She is an incredibly talented journalist who has sounded the alarm on numerous public health crises. This book helped to raise awareness about a number of emerging public health issues and is generally very readable. That being said, it neede......more

Goodreads review by Kevin J. on February 04, 2008

A chilling account of the collapse of public health throughout the world, and the potential ramifications for the future of the human race. Garrett is a first-rate journalist, and this book reads like a detective story--fast-paced, dramatic, full of action and suspense--while at the same time sticki......more

Goodreads review by SamuraiKitty on June 01, 2020

I purchased this book years ago, but didn't read it until now. When Garrett's book "The Coming Plague" was first published in the early 1990's, I checked it out of the library, and I was fascinated by her re-telling of how the CDC "cowboy" scientists of the 1950's, 1960's and on up decades were sent......more

Goodreads review by Roswitha on December 22, 2011

This book really give an understanding about real life case of epidemic diseases. Epidemic diseases usually happens in the third world countries or a country that has several problem politically and economically. I only read first two chapter of the book and several pages from the third chapter but......more

Goodreads review by Sjoerd on December 19, 2021

Overall a good book, however in the end it is not as global as suggested but more on the US public health system. Heard it using audible with a awful narrator; such a shame for such a good book. I am glad I also had the real book......more

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