Reducing firearm injury and death : a public health sourcebook on guns / Trudy Ann Karlson & Stephen W. Hargarten.
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TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1997.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 172 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0585022119
- 9780585022116
- 0813569109
- 9780813569109
- Firearms accidents -- Prevention
- Firearms -- Design and construction
- Firearms -- Marketing
- Firearms
- Medical policy
- Gunshot wounds
- Public health
- Penetrating wounds
- Manufactures
- Wounds and injuries
- Diseases
- Medical care
- Social control
- Sociology
- Social sciences
- Firearms
- Wounds, Gunshot -- prevention & control
- Consumer Product Safety
- Health Policy
- United States
- Wounds, Gunshot
- Public Health
- Wounds, Penetrating
- Manufactured Materials
- Wounds and Injuries
- Disease
- Delivery of Health Care
- Social Control, Formal
- Sociology
- Social Sciences
- Armes à feu -- Conception et construction
- Politique sanitaire
- Armes à feu
- Lésions et blessures par armes à feu
- Santé publique
- Plaies pénétrantes
- Produits manufacturés
- Lésions et blessures
- Maladies
- Prestation de soins
- Contrôle social
- Sociologie
- Sciences sociales
- public health
- sociology
- social sciences
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement
- Firearms accidents -- Prevention
- Firearms -- Design and construction
- Firearms -- Marketing
- 363.3/3 21
- RA772.F57 K37 1997eb
- WO 807
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-166) and index.
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Foreword / Stephen P. Teret -- Introduction: Why We Are Writing This Book -- 1. The Scope of the Problem -- 2. Guns and Ammunition: The Basics -- 3. Modern Firearms -- 4. Comparing Firearms -- 5. Injuries from Firearms -- 6. Where Guns Come From -- 7. How Guns Are Currently Regulated -- 8. Strategies for Reducing Deaths and Injuries from Firearms -- App. 1. Factoring Criteria for Handguns -- App. 2. Text of ATF Form 4473 -- App. 3. A List of Concerned Organizations -- App. 4. Where to Find Out More.
Two experts in public health and injury control show readers how guns are products, designed to injure and kill, and how changes in the design, technology, and marketing of firearms can lead to reductions in the number of injuries and fatalities.
English.
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