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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 a...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Ann Arbor, Michigan] :
University of Michigan Press,
2017.
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| Edición: | New edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Guns and american society -- The scope of the gun problem -- The facts about gun ownership -- The public health approach -- What public health means in practice -- The scientific basis of injury control -- The wrong medicine : good guys and bad guys -- Gun-related injury and death -- Gun accidents -- Suicides -- Homicides -- Other gun-related crimes -- Self-defense use of guns -- The myth and reality of deterrence -- How common is self-defense gun use? -- Is more better? -- How effective is self-defense gun use? -- Location -- Guns in the home -- Guns in schools -- Guns in public. | |
| 520 | |a "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"--Publisher's description | ||
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