A Plague on Your Houses: How New York Was Burned Down and National Public Health Crumbled

Author:   Deborah Wallace ,  Rodrick Wallace
Publisher:   Verso Books
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9781859848586


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   17 February 1999
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Deborah Wallace ,  Rodrick Wallace
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.478kg
ISBN:  

9781859848586


ISBN 10:   1859848583
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   17 February 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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A Plague on Your Houses breaks new ground for political ecology of urban decay. It is also a provocative foretale of what 'radical urban science' might be. --Mike Davis, Metropolis A Plague on Your Houses deserves attention for its insights into the connections among urban communities and the ease with which diseases and social problems of the poor and vulnerable can spread into the mainstream and the suburbs. It asks new questions about the determinants of urban decay and public health, and challenges the dominant paradigm of disease causation mostly related to individual choices and lifestyles. -- JAMA This is a book which transcends the boundaries between politics, theory, empirical research and political activism. When was the last time you read something that really describes how the connections between policy, community and individual characteristics actually work ? Wallace and Wallace have woven 20 years' worth of research, passion and action from he front line into an astonishing narrative. -- Critical Public Health


A Plague on Your Houses breaks new ground for political ecology of urban decay. It is also a provocative foretale of what 'radical urban science' might be. --Mike Davis, Metropolis <br><br> A Plague on Your Houses deserves attention for its insights into the connections among urban communities and the ease with which diseases and social problems of the poor and vulnerable can spread into the mainstream and the suburbs. It asks new questions about the determinants of urban decay and public health, and challenges the dominant paradigm of disease causation mostly related to individual choices and lifestyles. -- JAMA <br><br> This is a book which transcends the boundaries between politics, theory, empirical research and political activism. When was the last time you read something that really describes how the connections between policy, community and individual characteristics actually work ? Wallace and Wallace have woven 20 years' worth of research, passion and action from he front line into an astonishing narrative. -- Critical Public Health


A Plague on Your Houses breaks new ground for political ecology of urban decay. It is also a provocative foretale of what 'radical urban science' might be. --Mike Davis, Metropolis A Plague on Your Houses deserves attention for its insights into the connections among urban communities and the ease with which diseases and social problems of the poor and vulnerable can spread into the mainstream and the suburbs. It asks new questions about the determinants of urban decay and public health, and challenges the dominant paradigm of disease causation mostly related to individual choices and lifestyles. -- JAMA This is a book which transcends the boundaries between politics, theory, empirical research and political activism. When was the last time you read something that really describes how the connections between policy, community and individual characteristics actually work ? Wallace and Wallace have woven 20 years' worth of research, passion and action from he front line into an astonishing narrative. -- Critical Public Health


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Deborah Wallace is the author of In the Mouth of the Dragon: Toxic Fires in the Age of Plastics and, with Rodrick Wallace, Studies on the Collapse of the Fire Service in New York City. She works as an ecologist for Consumers' union. Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Department of Mental Health Epidemiology at the New York State Psychiatric institute.

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