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University of Michigan Press
January 2007
On Sale: December 29, 2006
376 pages
ISBN: 0472031627
EAN: 9780472031627
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Non-Fiction
On an average day in the United States, guns are used to
kill almost eighty people, and to 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. 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 of injury and death from infectious disease, car
accidents, and tobacco consumption-can be applied to gun
violence. Hemenway uncovers the complex connections between guns and
self-defense, gun violence and schools, gun prevalence and
homicide, and more. Finally, he outlines a policy course
that would significantly reduce gun-related injury and death. With its bold new public-health approach to guns, Private
Guns, Public Health marks a shift in our understanding
of guns that will-finally-point us toward a solution.
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