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The Cure for Everything : The Epic Struggle for Public Health and a Radical Vision for Human Thriving.
'The Cure For Everything' is the inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlocked an explosion in human potential - and a vision for the work ahead to optimize human flourishing in the 21st century.
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- ISBN: 9780593595541
- Physical Description: 256 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Random House Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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"Public health is an unusual discipline -- a combination of science, sociology, politics, and logistics--with a simple goal: to create the conditions for human thriving. At the moment, Americans, regardless of what macroeconomic statistics might suggest,are decidedly not thriving: from our failed covid response to our epidemics of depression and isolation to our inadequate healthcare system, Americans are in a state of deep malaise. Michelle Williams, one of the country's true innovators in public health, reaches back into the past to draw out the lessons that public health has to offer for our time and into the future. She tells the hidden history of public health in America--how radicals and renegades from WEB DuBois to Jane Addams to the activists ofACT UP helped lead what she calls "the great escape" from human suffering that is at the heart of the public health mission. As she takes readers from one dramatic story to the next, she draws out the lessons that apply to our time, and makes the compelling argument that it is public health, rather than standard economic metrics or partisan politics, that should drive our country's policies and political culture -- and that if we fail to prioritize health and well-being for everyone, we have failed as a society. She ends by pointing to the ideas and policies that have the potential to transform this country and fulfill our founding creed--to "promote the general welfare for ourselves and our posterity." Here is a dramatic, sweeping history that enables us to better understand the past--the victories, defeats, and tipping points that compelled us to take action--and what we need to do in the future to address new and novel threats, and complete the unfinished business of public health"-- Provided by publisher. - Random House, Inc.
The inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlocked an explosion in human potentialâand a vision for the work ahead to optimize human flourishing in the twenty-first century
âMichelle Williams understands what too many have forgotten: Individual wellness and collective well-being are inseparable.ââArianna Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global
Public health is an unusual disciplineâa combination of science, sociology, politics, and logisticsâwith a simple goal: to create the conditions for human thriving. Despite a century of massive improvements in our health and quality of life, Americansâreeling from our disastrous pandemic response, epidemics of depression and isolation, and a failing healthcare systemâare understandably distrustful of public health. But the true history of public health doesnât just reveal one of the greatest feats in human historyâour great escape from early death and infectious diseaseâit points toward a future of even greater improvements. The cure for everything? Itâs all of us, working together for our collective health.
Michelle A. Williams, one of the countryâs true innovators in public health, here tells the dramatic hidden history of public health in America: a story of how radicals and renegadesâfrom W.E.B. Du Bois to Alice Hamilton to the activists of ACT UPâand the institutions and infrastructure we built together helped transform our world. As she takes readers through these dramatic stories, she draws out their deeper lessons. In the end, she makes a powerful argument that it is public health that should drive our countryâs policies and politicsâthat if our policies fail to increase the health and well-being of everyone, regardless of race or economic status, we have failed as a society.
Here is a dramatic, sweeping history with a galvanizing vision for how we can address new threats and complete the unfinished business of public health.
