Prescription for a healthy nation : a new approach to improving our lives by fixing our everyday world /
Tom Farley and Deborah A. Cohen.
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2005.
- xiii, 282 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-274) and index.
The wrong remedy -- Greek gods and American myths -- Humans behaving badly -- Bell curves and bad apples -- Curve shifters -- More is more: accessibility -- Sidewalks and falling children: physical structures -- Playing by the rules: social structures -- It's the real thing: media -- Healthscaping america -- The killer leaf -- Habits of the heart -- To our health? -- When sex is lethal -- Injuries, not accidents -- Unequal afflictions -- Health, policies, and politics.
0807021164 (cloth : alk. paper)
2004024188
Public health--United States. Medical care--United States. Medicine, Preventive--United States.