| Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed. Contributor(s): Hemenway, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0472037013 ISBN-13: 9780472037018 Publisher: University of Michigan Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Policy - Political Science |
| Dewey: 617.145 |
| LCCN: 2017011659 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.30 lbs) 394 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem--an approach that emphasizes prevention over punishment and that has successfully reduced the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption. Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively outlines a policy course that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death, pointing us toward a solution. |