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Private Guns, Public Health
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David Hemenway is Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Director of Harvard's Injury Control Research Center and Youth Violence Prevention Center. A former Pew Fellow on Injury Control, he has been a Senior Soros Justice Fellow and held a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.

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"... a detailed, sober account of the effect of guns on society.... [Hemenway] compares the public health problems created by firearms with those of tobacco and alcohol.... [and] calls for a public health approach to firearms that 'is not about banning guns but is about creating policies that will prevent violence and injuries.'" - New York Times "... a brilliant and clear-eyed primer for the country." - Nicholas Kristof "This lucid and penetrating study is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the tragedy of gun violence in American and - even more important - what we can do to stop it. David Hemenway cuts through the cant and rhetoric in a way that no fair-minded person can dismiss, and no sane society can afford to ignore." - Richard North Patterson, author of Balance of Power "Hemenway has written an accessible and compelling research brief that places the burden of proof squarely on the shoulders of those opposed to the policy reforms he discusses.... One does not have to endorse his interpretation of the current research literature to agree that improved surveillance of unintentional firearm injuries, suicides, and homicides would help determine whether the lives saved and injuries averted are worth the monetary and symbolic costs of stricter gun control." - Journal of the American Medical Association"

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