Betrayal of Trust

The Collapse of Global Public Health

By: Laurie Garrett

Narrated by: Randye Kaye

In this "meticulously researched" account (New York Times Book Review), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author examines the dangers of a failing public health system unequipped to handle large-scale global risks like a coronavirus pandemic.

The New York Times best-selling author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett takes on perhaps the most crucial global issue of our time in this eye-opening book. She asks: Is our collective health in a state of decline? If so, how dire is this crisis, and has the public health system itself contributed to it? Using riveting detail and finely honed storytelling, exploring outbreaks around the world, Garrett exposes the underbelly of the world's globalization to find out if it can still be assumed that government can and will protect the people's health or if that trust has been irrevocably broken.

©2000 Laurie Garrett (P)2020 Tantor

Perfect

Should be a required reading reading and fully digested by all new Epidemiologists before joining the order of shoe leather.

Well worth reading/listening

Very deep in data. The information was an eye opener.

The performance however is too robotic to be a real person. I prefer a real person narrating and feel a bit deceived as the book implies there a a real person reading it. It did not stop me from listening to the whole book but I will avoid this narrator in the future.

Excellent book, poor delivery

It is a pity that I cannot continue listening to this amazing book. The reader’s inflections and tone make it hard for me to focus on content. My apologies to both reader and author. I will read the Kindle version instead.

Narrated by a robot?

I love Laurie Garrett and have read her previous books. However, I'm having a difficult time listening to this recording. The narrator has a robotic cadence which I find extremely distracting and annoying. I don't think this could possibly be a real person.