Private Guns, Public Health

Name: Private Guns, Public Health
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ISBN: 9780472031627

ISBN-10: 0472031627

ISBN-13: 9780472031627

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Hemenway

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On an average day in the U.S., guns are used to kill almost eighty people, and wound nearly three hundred more. If any other consumer product had this sort of disastrous effect, the public outcry would be deafening; yet when it comes to guns such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. "Private Guns, Public Health explodes that myth and many more, revealing the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem. Author David Hemenway fair-mindedly and authoritatively demonstrates how a public-health approach -- which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and which has been so successful in reducing the rates…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 12/29/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.188