18 records matched your query       

Author:

Hotez, Peter J., author.

Title:

Preventing the next pandemic : vaccine diplomacy in a time of anti-science / Peter J. Hotez, MD, PHD.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xiii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Vaccines.
Epidemics--Prevention.
Public health--International cooperation.
Anti-vaccination movement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A New Post-2015 Urgency -- A Cold War Legacy -- Vaccine Science Envoy -- Battling Diseases of the Anthropocene -- The Middle East Killing Fields -- Africa's "Un-Wars" -- The Northern Triangle and Collapse of Venezuela -- Sorting It Out : Attributable Risks -- Global Health Security and the Rise in Antiscience -- Implementing Vaccine Diplomacy and the Rise of COVID -- The Broken Obelisk.

Summary:

"With global cooperation and cohesion in decline, Hotez, a former member of the US Science Envoy Program, zeroes in on the factors that drive our most controversial and pressing global health concerns, including war and conflict, climate change, antivaxxers, and poverty. He proposes historically proven methods to soothe fraught international relations while preparing us for a safer, healthier future. The 2020 coronavirus crisis makes the book more timely than ever."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1421440385
9781421440385

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1152488069

LCCN:

2020018801

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)