A Plague of Prisons

by Drucker, Ernest

• ISBN13: 9781595584977
• ISBN10: 1595584978
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-30
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same concepts and tools of public health that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years, Ernest Drucker makes the case that the current unprecedented level of imprisonment has become an epidemic, a plague upon our body politic.

Author Biography

Ernest Drucker is a professor of family and social medicine and a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as an adjunct professor of epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He is an NIH-funded researcher, editor-in-chief of the international Harm Reduction Journal, a Soros Justice Fellow, and a founder and former chairman of Doctors of the World /USA.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
An Epidemiological Riddle	p. 1
Cholera in London: The Ghost Maps of Dr. Snow	p. 11
AIDS: The Epidemiology of a New Disease	p. 19
A Different Kind of Epidemic	p. 37
Anatomy of an Outbreak: New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Prison Pump	p. 50
Orders of Magnitude: The Relative Impact of Mass Incarceration	p. 68
A Self-Sustaining Epidemic: Modes of Reproduction	p. 78
Chronic Incapacitation: The Long Tail of Mass Incarceration	p. 108
The Contagion of Punishment: Collateral Damage to Children and Families of Prisoners	p. 141
Ending Mass Incarceration: A Public Health Model	p. 163
Notes	p. 191
Index	p. 213
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