A History of Public HealthJHU Press, 1993 - 535 páginas Since its publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic treatise has remained the only comprehensive international account of the history of public health. Long available only through antiquarian bookstores, A History of Public Health now returns to print in a paperback edition that supplements the original text with Elizabeth Fee's new introduction and Edward T. Morman's biographical essay and bibliography. George Rosen discusses the evolution of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the United States, and other countries. He also presents the lives and history-making contributions of the great figures in public health. Approaching the subject from a broad point of view, Rosen considers community health problems of different periods in terms of their political, social, and economic patterns. Among the topics discussed are the prevalence of disease, the water supply and sewage disposal, epidemiological theory, maternal and child health, nutrition, occupational health, health education, public health administration, communicable disease control, medical care, statistics, public policy, and medical geography. A new introduction by Elizabeth Fee places the work in the context of both the earlier and later historiography of public health. Fee identifies Rosen's agenda in relation to trends in medical history and the politics of public health in the 1950s. She also assesses the impact of Rosen's book and identifies new problems in public health that have arisen since its first publication. |
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GEORGE ROSEN PUBLIC HEALTH | lxix |
PREFACE TO THE 1958 EDITION | lxxxix |
Problems of Disease 6 Diphtheria 6 Malaria | 8 |
Endemic | 24 |
PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE MIDDLE AGES | 26 |
The Decline of Rome 26 The Middle Ages 27 The Growth | 48 |
Brave New Worlds 57 Causes and Consequences 58 | 68 |
Small Pox 74 Malaria and other Diseases 76 Contagion | 85 |
The Sanitary Condition of the People 187 The Health | 196 |
204 Urbanism and the Origins of American Public Health | 209 |
Premature National Health Department 224 Social | 226 |
Epidemiological Conundrum 263 First Steps toward | 266 |
Ferments and Microbes 277 The Silkworm Disease and | 291 |
Bacteriology and the Public Health 295 The Vanishing | 312 |
Economic and Social Trends in a Changing Society 320 | 350 |
Voluntary Action for Health 358 Teaching the People about | 462 |
Toward a National Health Policy 90 The Town and | 105 |
The Campaign Against Gin 114 A Slaughter of Innocents | 115 |
Improvement of Town Life 127 Health in National Policy | 136 |
the Rights of Man 143 A Parochial Health Policy 146 | 166 |
Philosophic Radicals 174 Enter Mr Chadwick 175 | 182 |
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