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A History of Public Health

A History of Public Health


Paperback, 632 pages, release 1993-07-01
George Rosen
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801846455

This paperback edition of George Rosen's classic account of the history of public health supplements the original text with Elizabeth Fee's introduction and Edward T. Morman's biographical essay and b…

Review: A must for Clinicians & public Healh professionals reading
The chronology of George Rosen of the development of the health service in A history of the health service is one HAVE TO GO read for not only to health service experts, but clinician, health…

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Making Kedjom Medicine: A History of Public Health and Well-Being in Cameroon

Making Kedjom Medicine: A History of Public Health and Well-Being in Cameroon


Hardcover, 432 pages, release 2004-02-11
Kent Maynard
Heinemann
ISBN: 0325071187

European colonial and religious intrusions in the region transformed, but did not destroy, local medical practices. Perhaps the major transformation since the colonial period and extending into the po…

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The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health

The Sanitarians: A History of American Public Health


Hardcover, 330 pages, release 1990-04-01
John Duffy
University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252016637

Review: Largely Read
This story of American Gesundheitswesen-Chronik-Gesundheitsperspektiven of garbage collectors and health service workers to doctors and enterprisers. There follows medicine because it developed of it…

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Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health

Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health


Hardcover, 600 pages, release 1997-05-15
Judith W. Leavitt
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299153207

An invaluable resource for students, scholars and general readers, this highly regarded and widely used social history of medicine and public health in the United States is now available in a third ed…

Review: A comprehensive overview
Leavitt is a miraculous historian, and although the majority of her early work stood on the women's health everywhere in the US history, in the illness and health in America in the centre which she proves again…

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Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health

Imperial Hygiene: A Critical History of Colonialism, Nationalism and Public Health


Hardcover, 272 pages, release 2004-01-17
Alison Bashford
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 140390488X

This is a cultural history of borders, hygiene and race. It is about foreign bodies, from Victorian Vaccines to the pathologized interwar immigrant, from smallpox quarantine to the leper colony, from…

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Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health

Sickness and Health in America: Readings in the History of Medicine and Public Health


Paperback, 600 pages, release 1997-04-15
University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 029915324X

…Health, Early American Medicine, Therapeutics, the Art of Medicine and Public Health and Personal Hygiene have been added, supplementing updated sections on the Science of Medicine, Education, the All…

Review: A comprehensive overview
…Problems. Surrounding classical works like the work on the Tuskagee syphilis experiment and works early on settings to people who live with the HIV/AIDS, Leavitt should be applauded…


Shifting Boundaries of Public Health: Europe in the Twentieth Century

Shifting Boundaries of Public Health: Europe in the Twentieth Century


Hardcover, release 2008-08-01
University of Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580462839

Rochester Studies Medical History
European public health was a playing field for deeply contradictory impulses throughout the twentieth century. In the 1920s, international agencies were established with great fanfare and post war opt…

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Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America

Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century America


Hardcover, 512 pages, release 2006-11-16
Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195150694

Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Public health programs for disease and injury prevention were responsible for much of this advance. Over the century, America's publ…

Review: A pensive, readable, comprehensive volume
The improvement in the public health is one of the big triumphs of the United States in the twentieth century, but the history of that as this miracle happened, has mainly been ignored. In it…

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From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health

From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health


Hardcover, 248 pages, release 2007-03-30
R. Alton Lee
Praeger Publishers
ISBN: 0275994678

Healing Society Disease History
Without Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health, diseases festering in water sources, food and the common towel at the turn of the 20th century would have caused thousands of deaths in…

Review: Samuel Crumbine of Toepka and early decades of the health service
This is another interesting biography by R. Alton Lee. A few years ago I had admired in it joy to read his book about another, not in such a way, Kansan, Dr. John R. Brinkley (The weird one…

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Hypnotism: A History

Hypnotism: A History


Paperback, 368 pages, release 2001-06-05
Derek Forrest
Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN: 0140280405

When Anton Mesmer began to cure patients with animal magnetism more than two hundred years ago he initiated a controversy in the medical profession that continues to this day. Mesmer's theory of a uni…

Review: I have one day read the best history of the Hypnotismus and Mesmerismus
I have read in the Mesmerismus and the hypnosis for many years, and this is the best single volume still. This gives a very clear straight history of the crossing of the Mesmerismus to…

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