Private Guns, Public Health, New Ed.

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.

Author: David Hemenway
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 08/07/2017
Pages: 394
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780472037018
ISBN10: 0472037013
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Policy
- Political Science | General

About the Author
David Hemenway is Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of Harvard's Injury Control Research Center. In 2012 he was recognized by the Centers for Disease Control as one of the twenty "most influential injury and violence professionals over the past twenty years."