TY  - GEN
T1  - Private guns, public health
A1  - Hemenway, David, 1945-
LA  - English
PP  - Ann Arbor, Michigan
PB  - University of Michigan Press
YR  - 2017
ED  - New edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1148865470
AB  - "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
CN  - RD96.3
SN  - 9780472123254
SN  - 0472123254
SN  - 9780472037018
SN  - 0472037013
SN  - 9780472037018 (paper : alk. paper)
KW  - Gunshot wounds : United States : Prevention.
KW  - Firearms : Law and legislation : United States.
KW  - Gun control : United States.
KW  - Medical policy : United States.
KW  - Firearms ownership : United States.
KW  - Firearms : legislation & jurisprudence
KW  - Armes à feu : Contrôle : États-Unis.
KW  - Politique sanitaire : États-Unis.
KW  - Armes à feu : Possession : États-Unis.
KW  - MEDICAL : Surgery : General.
KW  - Firearms : Law and legislation
KW  - Firearms ownership
KW  - Gun control
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - United States
ER  -