The rather uneven performance of officialdom in addressing the anthrax scare of 2001 and the resulting erosion of public confidence provided powerful motivation for policymakers to take steps to remedy the “lack of focus, funding, and national attention” that impaired the public health system’s capacity to confront future threats to population health and thus endangered the security of the homeland. The events of fall 2001 yanked public health in America from the relative obscurity and malaise within which it was mired by the end of the twentieth century and propelled it center stage in the unlikely, although logical, role of being the sentinel of bioterrorism preparedness efforts. In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis edited by Jonathan D.
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