Private guns, public health /
"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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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
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[Ann Arbor, Michigan] :
University of Michigan Press,
2017.
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| Phiên bản: | New edition. |
| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1575568 |
Mục lục:
- 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.