Catherine Flowers tells the story of systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions across America. Worsened by climate change, poor sanitation threatens to bring new public health crises; already, the tropical parasite hookworm, long eradicated in the South, is back. Yet policymakers on all levels have mostly failed to act. Flowers aims to change that.
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