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A History of Public Health
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Book : A History of Public Health Author : * George Rosen Language : English Library : Social Phsician Publish Place : U.S.A. ISBN : 0-8018-4645-5 Publish Date : January 1993 Publisher : The Johns Hopkins University Press Book Type : Book Book Number : 539 |
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CONTENTSPUBLIC HEALTH, PAST AND PRESENT: A SHARED SOCIAL VISION
by Elizabeth Fee
GEORGE ROSEN, PUBLIC HEALTH, AND HISTORY
by Edward T. Morman
PREFACE TO THE 1958 EDITION
I. THE ORIGINS OF PUBLIC HEALTH Sanitation and Housing, 1; Cleanliness and Godliness, Disease and the Community,
II. HEALTH AND THE COMMUNITY IN THE
GRECO-ROMAN WORLD
Greece
Problems of Disease, 6; Diphtheria, 6; Malaria,
The Nature of Disease, 8; Airs, Waters, and Places,
Colonization and Medical Care, 10; Hygiene and Health
Education, 12; Occupational Health, 13. Public Health
Administration,
Rome
The Legacy of Greece, 13; Water Supply and Sanitation,
Climate, Soil, and Health, 18; Disease: Endemic and
Epidemic, 19; The Workers' Health, 21. The Provision of
Medical Care, 22; Baths as Well as Bread and Circuses,Contents
III. PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE MIDDLE AGES (500-1500 A.D.) 26
The Decline of Rome, 26; The Middle Ages, 27; The Growth of Cities, 30; Sanitary Problems of Urban Life, 30; Protecting the Consumer, 34; Disease in the Middle Ages, 35; Leprosy-The Great Blight, 38; The Living Dead, 40; The Black Death, 41. Quarantine, 43; What Causes Epidemics?. 45; The Organization of Public Health, 47; Provision of Medical Care, 48; Hospitals and Welfare Institutions, 50; The Regimen of Health, 53. The Medieval Achievement in Public Health, 55
IV MERCANTILISM, ABSOLUTISM, AND THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE (1500-1750) Brave New Worlds, 57. Causes and Consequences, 58; The Old Public Health and the New Science, 60; New Diseases for a New World, 62; The English Sweat, 62; Jail Fever and the Black Assizes, 64; The Red Sickness, 65; The Rickets or the English Disease, 67; Scurvy-The Black Death of the Sea, 68; The Diseases of Workers, 69; The Great Pox, 72; The Small Pox, 74; Malaria and other Diseases, 76; Contagion or Epidemic Constitution?. 79; Leeuwenhoek and his "little animals", 83; Foundations of Public Health Administration, Political Arithmetic: The Bookkeeping of the State, 87; Toward a National Health Policy, 90; The Town and the Public Health, 96; Street Cleaning and Drainage, 98; The Water Supply-Toward Private Enterprise, 100; The Lame, the Halt, and the Blind, 103; An Age of Transition,
V. HEALTH IN A PERIOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION (1750-1830) A Seed Time of History, 107; Enlightenment and Reason, 108; Of Human Welfare, 111; An Increase of Population,
The Campaign Against Gin, 114; A Slaughter of Innocents, 115. All Manner of Conditions and Men, 117; Lunacy and Conscience, 120; Hospitals and Dispensaries, 123; Improvement of Town Life, 127. Health in National Policy, 136; A Health Code for Enlightened Despots, 137; Health and the Rights of Man, 143. A Parochial Health Policy, 146; The Bookkeeping of Life and Death, 148; The Geography of Health and Disease, 152; Advice to the People on their Health, 156; The Prevalence of Disease, 158; Variolation-Like Cures Like, 159; The Cow Pox and a Country Doctor, 164; A World of Coal and Iron, 166
VI. INDUSTRIALISM AND THE SANITARY MOVEMENT (1830-1875)
Satanic Wheels, 168; The Old Poor Law, 170; Mobilizing the Labor Force, 171. The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity, 173; The View of Political Economy, 173; Bentham and the Philosophic Radicals, 174; Enter Mr. Chadwick, 175; The Xew Poor Law, 176; Urban Growth and the Problems of Town Life, 177; Reduce Taxes by Preventing Disease! The Sanitary Condition of the People, 187; The Health of Towns Commission, 192; The General Board of Health, Exit Mr. Chadwick, 197; "How quaint the Ways of Paradox! 200; Two Steps Forward, One Step Back, 203; Eppurse muove, 204; Urbanism and the Origins of American Public Health in the Nineteenth Century, 209; A Bookseller Turns Crusader, 216; The New York Sanitary Survey of 1864, 219; A Premature National Health Department, 224; Social Revolution, Industrialism, and Public Hygiene in France, National Unification and Health Reform in Germany, An Era of Statistical Enthusiasm, 235; Woman and Children First, 240; A Period of Great Epidemics, 251. -And Some Smaller Ones, 254; Miasma versus Contagion-anContents
Epidemiological Conundrum, 263; First Steps toward International Health Organization,
VII. THE BACTERIOLOGICAL ERA AND ITS AFTERMATH (1875-1950) The Specific Element in Disease, 270; "A More Rational Account of the Itch," 271; A Disease of Silkworms, 272; A Revolutionary Anatomist Fights a Rearguard Action, Ferments and Microbes, 277; The Silkworm Disease and the Germ Theory, 280; A Botanist Plays Host to an Unknown Doctor, 284; Antisepsis and Asepsis in Surgery, Bacteriology and the Public Health, 295; The Vanishing Diseases,
VIII. THE BACTERIOLOGICAL ERA AND ITS AFTERMATH (CONCLUDED) Economic and Social Trends in a Changing Society, 320; The Welfare of Mothers and Children, 325; The Health of the School Child, 341. A New Kind of Nurse Appears, 350; Voluntary Action for Health, 358; Teaching the People about Health, 369; The Rise of Scientific Nutrition, 380; The Health and Welfare of the Worker, 395; Better Medical Care for the People, 415; The Responsibility of Government for the Advancement of Health, 439; "No Man is an Hand 454; "That untravell'd world, whose margin fades
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Primary Sources, 473; Secondary Sources,
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