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Ernest Drucker

Plague of Prisons

The Epidemology of Mass Incarceration in America

Buch

When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same public health approaches and tools that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years, Ernest Drucker makes the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic-a plague upon our body politic.Drucker, an internationally recognized public health scholar and Soros Justice Fellow, spent twenty years treating drug addiction and another twenty studying AIDS in some of the poorest neighbo… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-59558-497-7
  • EAN: 9781595584977
  • Produktnummer: 23301643
  • Verlag: The New Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 228 S.
  • Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.7 cm x D2.1 cm 396 g
  • Gewicht: 396
  • Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor


Ernest Drucker is a scholar in residence and senior research associate at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He is professor emeritus of family and social medicine at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and adjunct professor of epidemiology at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. He is an NIH-funded researcher, editor-in-chief of the international Harm Reduction Journal, a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Global Health, and a Soros Justice Fellow. He is also a founder and former chairman of Doctors of the World/USA. He lives in New York City.

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