Title: Public health in history /
Authors: Berridge, Virginia.; Gorsky, Martin,; Mold, Alex.
Date: 2011
Publisher: Open University Press,
Physical description: 229 p. : ill., maps, ports., facsims. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: This book is an introduction to key themes in the history of medicine, health and public health designed as reading for a range of healthcare students. The book combines wide ranging history of medicine with a contemporary look at public health issues.
Contents: History in public health : the nature and practice of history / Martin Gorsky, Alex Mold and Virginia Berridge -- Public health in the West since 1800 : the context ; Public health in the West since 1800 : the responses / Martin Gorsky -- The development of the health professions / Virginia Berridge -- Tropical medicine / John Manton -- Case study : sexual health / Virginia Berridge -- Case study : substance use / Alex Mold -- Case study : malaria / Maureen Malowany and Suzanne Taylor -- Health systems and welfare states in the West, 1880s-1960s / Martin Gorsky -- Public health in the twentieth century I : 1900-1945 / Virginia Berridge -- Global health / John Manton -- Public health in the twentieth century II : 1945-2000s / Virginia Berridge -- Using history in policy and practice / Virginia Berridge.
Subject headings (LCSH): Public health--History--19th century.; Public health--History--20th century.