Healing Gotham: New York City's Public Health Policies for the Twenty-First Century

New York City provides the ideal context for studying urban public health policy.

Throughout its history, New York City has been challenged by a variety of public health crises. Since the nineteenth century—when it became one of the first American cities to develop a comprehensive public health infrastructure—New York has also stood at the forefront of formulating and implementing urban health policy. Healing Gotham examines in depth how the city has responded to five serious contemporary pu...