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The Global Gun Epidemic
From Saturday Night Specials to AK-47s
 Series: Praeger Security International
 Wendy Cukier, Victor W. Sidel

0-275-98256-4/978-0-275-98256-0

Description
Explores the threat to public health from the global small arms trade, addressing supply, demand, gun culture, regulation, and gun control efforts on an international scale.

Reviews:
-This book makes the case for a strong link between the availability of guns and gun-related death and injury throughout the world....Written by two professors with public health and gun issues expertise, this book includes analyses on gun production and trade, gun culture, regulation and national and international responses to the effects of gun proliferation. In each case, the authors approach the issues from a public health point of view....[p]resenting the reader with extensive data that will be useful to all those researching the gun industry....For anyone interested in gun violence and its costs, this book represents a comprehensive and well-written overview of a very important topic. —Journal of Peace Research
-The book has a two-fold purpose, firstly serving as a valuable tool for raising awareness of issues, which are by standards of most governments and media organisations considered to be highly taboo. Secondly it is an excellent overview and reference source for researchers who often find it hard to source published material on the subject... It offers a good insight and an overall picture of the subject area and is useful for both academics and those with a general interest. —Internet Law Book Reviews
-The Global Gun Epidemic provides a valuable overview of an important topic. By bringing together information from around the world, this book allows the reader to see connections and gain insights that might otherwise be missed. Those of us who focus on preventing gun deaths and injuries within the United States sometimes forget just how much the lack of an effective national regulatory system for firearms can affect other countries....This book's public health approach reminds us that the instrument of violence matters. —JAMA/Journal of the American Medical Association
About the Author
Wendy Cukier is Professor of Justice Studies and Information Technology Management at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is a cofounder of Canada's Coalition for Gun Control, a founding member of the International Action Network on Small Arms, and coordinates the Small Arms Firearms Education and Research Network. In 2000 she was awarded the Governor General's Meritorious Service award, one of Canada's highest honors.

Victor W. Sidel is Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is a former president of the American Public Health Association, and a cofounder and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985).
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