UID:
almafu_9959238131202883
Format:
1 online resource (768 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-39725-3
,
9786611397258
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0-8135-4422-X
Series Statement:
Public health : the development of a discipline ; v. 1
Content:
Public health as a discipline grew out of traditional Western medicine but expanded to include interests in social policy, hygiene, epidemiology, infectious disease, sanitation, and health education. This book, the first of a two-volume set, is a collection of important and representative historical texts that serve to trace and to illuminate the development of conceptions, policies, and treatments in public health from the dawn of Western civilization through the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century. The editors provide annotated readings and biographical details to punctuate the hi
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
pt. 1. Early roots -- pt. 2. The sanitary reform movement -- pt. 3. The progressive era.
,
English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8135-4231-6
Language:
English
