Format:
Online-Ressource (768 p.)
ISBN:
9780813542317
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
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; Part I: Early Roots; Chapter 1: Hippocrates (c. 460-377 BCE); Chapter 2: John Graunt (1620-1674); Chapter 3: James Lind (1716-1794); Chapter 4: George Baker (1722-1809); Chapter 5: Percival Pott (1714-1788); Chapter 6: Edward Jenner (1749-1823); Chapter 7: Peter Ludwig Panum (1820-1885); Part II: The Sanitary Reform Movement; Chapter 8: William Farr (1807-1883); Chapter 9: Edwin Chadwick (1800-1890); Chapter 10: John Simon (1816-1904); Chapter 11: Lemuel Shattuck (1793-1859); Chapter 12: John Snow (1813-1858)
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Chapter 13: Edward Jarvis (1803-1884)Chapter 14: William Budd (1811-1880); Chapter 15: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910); Chapter 16: Ignac Semmelweis (1818-1865); Chapter 17: Robert Koch (1843-1910); Part III: The Progressive Era; Chapter 18: Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914); Chapter 19: Upton Sinclair (1878-1968); Chapter 20: Abraham Flexner (1866-1959); Chapter 21: Joseph Goldberger (1874-1929); Chapter 22: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966); Chapter 23: Alice Hamilton (1869-1970); Chapter 24: Abel Woman (1892-1989); Afterword; Appendix I; Appendix II; Notes; Index; About the Editors;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813544229
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813542317
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Public Health : The Development of a Discipline - From the Age of Hippocrates to the Progressive Era
Language:
English
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