A History of Public Health

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Since publication in 1958, George Rosen’s classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field’s great figures. He considers such community health problems as infectious disease, water supply and sewage disposal, maternal and child health, nutrition, and occupational disease and injury. And he assesses the public health landscape of health education, public health administration, epidemiological theory, communicable disease control, medical care, statistics, public policy, and medical geography. Rosen, writing in the 1950s, may have had good reason to believe that infectious diseases would soon be conquered. But as Dr. Pascal James Imperato writes in the new foreword to this edition, infectious disease remains a grave threat. Globalization, antibiotic resistance, and the emergence of new pathogens and the reemergence of old ones, have returned public health efforts to the basics: preventing and controlling chronic and communicable diseases and shoring up public health infrastructures that provide potable water, sewage disposal, sanitary environments, and safe food and drug supplies to populations around the globe. A revised introduction by Elizabeth Fee frames the book within the context of the historiography of public health past, present, and future, and an updated bibliography by Edward T. Morman includes significant books on public health history published between 1958 and 2014. For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading. Title Page Copyright Page Contents Foreword Public Health, Past and Present: A Shared Social Vision George Rosen, Public Health, and History Preface to the 1958 Edition I The Origins of Public Health Sanitation and Housing Cleanliness and Godliness Disease and the Community II Health and the Community in the Greco-Roman World Greece Problems of Disease Diphtheria Malaria The Nature of Disease Airs, Waters, and Places Colonization and Medical Care Hygiene and Health Education Occupational Health Public Health Administration Rome The Legacy of Greece Water Supply and Sanitation Climate, Soil, and Health Disease: Endemic and Epidemic The Workers’ Health The Provision of Medical Care Baths as Well as Bread and Circuses Public Health Administration III Public Health in the Middle Ages (500–1500 A.D.) The Decline of Rome The Middle Ages The Growth of Cities Sanitary Problems of Urban Life Protecting the Consumer Disease in the Middle Ages Leprosy—The Great Blight The Living Dead The Black Death Quarantine What Causes Epidemics? The Organization of Public Health The Provision of Medical Care Hospitals and Welfare Institutions The Regimen of Health The Medieval Achievement in Public Health IV Mercantilism, Absolutism, and the Health of the People (1500–1750) Brave New Worlds Causes and Consequences The Old Public Health and the New Science New Diseases for a New World The English Sweat Jail Fever and the Black Assizes The Red Sickness The Rickets, or the English Disease Scurvy—The Black Death of the Sea The Diseases of Workers The Great Pox The Small Pox Malaria and Other Diseases Contagion or Epidemic Constitution? Leeuwenhoek and His “Little Animals” Foundations of Public Health Administration Political Arithmetic: The Bookkeeping of the State Toward a National Health Policy The Town and the Public Health Street Cleaning and Drainage The Water Supply—Toward Private Enterprise The Lame, the Halt, and the Blind An Age of Transition V Health in a Period of Enlightenment and Revolution (1750–1830) A Seed Time of History Enlightenment and Reason Of Human Welfare An Increase of Population The Campaign against Gin A Slaughter of Innocents All Manner of Conditions and Men Lunacy and Conscience Hospitals and Dispensaries Improvement of Town Life Health in National Policy A Health Code for Enlightened Despots Health and the Rights of Man A Parochial Health Policy The Bookkeeping of Life and Death The Geography of Health and Disease Advice to the People on Their Health The Prevalence of Disease Variolation—Like Cures Like The Cow Pox and a Country Doctor A World of Coal and Iron VI Industrialism and the Sanitary Movement (1830–1875) The Satanic Wheels The Old Poor Law Mobilizing the Labor Force The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity The View of Political Economy Bentham and the Philosophic Radicals Enter Mr. Chadwick The New Poor Law Urban Growth and the Problems of Town Life Reduce Taxes by Preventing Disease! The Sanitary Condition of the People The Health of Towns Commission The General Board of Health Exit Mr. Chadwick “How Quaint the Ways of Paradox!” Two Steps Forward, One Step Back Eppur se muove Urbanism and the Origins of American Public Health in the Nineteenth Century A Bookseller Turns Crusader The New York Sanitary Survey of 1864 A Premature National Health Department Social Revolution, Industrialism, and Public Hygiene in France National Unification and Health Reform in Germany An Era of Statistical Enthusiasm Women and Children First A Period of Great Epidemics —And Some Smaller Ones Miasma versus Contagion—an Epidemiological Conundrum First Steps toward International Health Organization VII The Bacteriological Era and Its Aftermath (1875–1950) The Specific Element in Disease “A More Rational Account of the Itch” A Disease of Silkworms A Revolutionary Anatomist Fights a Rearguard Action Ferments and Microbes The Silkworm Disease and the Germ Theory A Botanist Plays Host to an Unknown Doctor Antisepsis and Asepsis in Surgery Bacteriology and the Public Health The Vanishing Diseases VIII The Bacteriological Era and Its Aftermath (Concluded) Economic and Social Trends in a Changing Society The Welfare of Mothers and Children The Health of the School Child A New Kind of Nurse Appears Voluntary Action for Health Teaching the People about Health The Rise of Scientific Nutrition The Health and Welfare of the Worker Better Medical Care for the People The Responsibility of Government for the Advancement of Health “No Man is an Iland . . .” “That untravell’d world, whose margin fades . . .” Bibliography Access to Primary Sources in the History of Public Health Classified Bibliography of Secondary Sources Subject Index Name Index