Mission and Method
Subtitle: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521527019
Subjects: History of medicine; Public health & preventive medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Health Care Delivery; History; Medical / History; Medical-Health Care Delivery; Public health--France--History--19th century
First sentence: From the fall of the Roman Empire to the late eighteenth century, two kinds of public health measures dominated: emergency measures to deal with epidemic disease and specific measures relating to municipal nuisances such as offensive trades and waste disposal.