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A History of Public Health: From Past to Present
Author: Jan Kirk CarneyOVERVIEW
A History of Public Health: From Past to Present uses a structured format to study public health from antiquity to the present time. After a brief introduction, this concise text illuminates defining moments in public health history through stories that illustrate people, principles, and challenges. These are followed by a discussion of history’s relevance to contemporary practice. Suggestions for additional study, discussion questions, and references complete each chapter.
History gives us a sense of perspective and of proportion. Looking at public health over decades and centuries, we see health issues in a longer context. Students, health care workers, public health professionals, researchers, teachers, advocates, policymakers, and citizens are all needed to improve public health. Public health’s history is relevant to our complex, challenging, enduring, and global issues today. Knowledge of our past will help us in the present and prepare us for the future.
Features and Benefits
- Emphasis on selected narratives – more detailed stories – to highlight defining moments in public health history and help readers to remember key historical events, their significance, and determine their relevance to today’s issues and practice.
- Easily accessible references and primary sources (historical newspapers government documents, contemporary textbooks, papers and journal articles) are included for additional study and context.
- Ample visuals and graphics highlight people, priorities, art, public opinion, and trends relevant to the time period, public health issue, and social/cultural context.
- Each chapter highlights the relevance of public health history to contemporary practice.
- Many transformative public health topics and current public health issues are covered (e.g. environmental awakening of the 70s and its relevance to climate change today)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Chapter 1 Early Theories of Public Health
- Chapter 2 Medieval Response to Disease
- Chapter 3 Rebirth, Renewal, and Scientific Inquiry
- Chapter 4 Enlightenment and Conflict in Health and Society
- Chapter 5 The Sanitary Crisis: Pivotal Progress in Public Health
- Chapter 6 Preventing Death and Disease: A Call to Action
- Chapter 7 New Discoveries in the Fight against Contagious Disease
- Chapter 8 The Birth of Modern Public Health
- Chapter 9 Health, War, and Society
- Chapter 10 Prevention, Pandemics, and Penicillin
- Chapter 11 War Horrors and Chronic Killers
- Chapter 12 Progress and Pitfalls in Research
- Chapter 13 Environmental Awakening
- Chapter 14 Without Warning: New and Emerging Diseases
- Chapter 15 Health Care Hurdles
- Chapter 16 Public Health in the 21st Century and Beyond
- Appendix A Concise Timeline of Public Health History
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