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The Bleeding Disease: Hemophilia and the Unintended Consequences of Medical Progress by Stephen Pemberton (review)

developed nations invest in improving the health and well-being in developing nations and how private philanthropy is beginning to shape global health policy in an era of global economic disruption. As the authors note, you can quibble with the chapter topics and the selection of the original papers, and I found myself thinking of other potential chapter topics or paper selections—e.g., malaria instead of TB, or pellagra instead of Vitamin A, or obesity instead of cardiovascular disease— only to realize how effectively the authors were able to focus a massive sweep of history into something manageable and digestible. This is a book to be savored, to be picked up, and sampled from time to time to help keep some of the daily tedium in its proper historical perspective. We all want the work we do in public health to matter; we want to be part of that seminal breakthrough that changes the dynamics between health and disease. Public Health is the antidote for our impatience. Yes, we should remain impatient about the pace of spreading public health advances across the globe with more efficiency and effectiveness, all the while recognizing that what happened in a short hundred years is unprecedented in human history. Ultimately, it is the collective works of public health that brought about the dramatic increases life expectancy in the developed world and that will do the same for our global citizenship in the twenty-first century.