Ch. 1. Guns and American Society -- Ch. 2. The Public Health Approach -- Ch. 3. Gun-Related Injury and Death -- Ch. 4. Self-Defense Use of Guns -- Ch. 5. Location -- Ch. 6. Demography -- Ch. 7. Supply -- Ch. 8. Policy Background -- Ch. 9. Policy Lessons -- Ch. 10. Policy Actions -- App. B. Famous Civilians Shot in the United States
Summary
"Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a consumer safety and public health problem. David Hemenway demonstrates how a public-health approach - which emphasizes prevention over punishment, and has been so successful in reducing the rates of injury and death from infectious disease, car accidents, and tobacco consumption - can be applied to gun violence."--BOOK JACKET