Silent victories
Subtitle: the history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America
By: edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren
Contributors: Ward, John W; Warren, Christian
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780195150698
Subjects: Public health -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: Over the century, America's public health system grew dramatically, employing science and political authority in response to an increasing array of health problems. As the disease burden of the old scourges of infection, perinatal mortality, and dietary deficiencies began to life, public health's mandate expanded to take on new health threats, such as those resulting from a changing workplace, the rise of the automobile, and chronic and complex conditions caused by smoking, diet and other lifestyle and environmental factors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Control of infectious diseases : a twentieth-century public health achievement / Alexandra M. Levitt, D. Peter Drotman, and Stephen Ostroff; title: Advances in food safety to prevent foodborne disease in the United States / Robert V. Tauxe and Emilio J. Esteban; title: A brief romance with magic bullets : René Dubos at the dawn of the antibiotic era / Jill E. Cooper; title: A shot at protection : immunizations against infectious disease / Alan R. Hinman and Walter A. Orenstein; title: Polio can be conquered : science and health propaganda in the United States from Polio Polly to Jonas Salk / Naomi Rogers; title: Safe mothers, healthy babies : reproductive health in the twentieth century / Milton Kotelchuck; title: Saving babies and mothers : pioneering efforts to decrease infant and maternal mortality / Jacqueline H. Wolf; title: The impact of improved nutrition on disease prevention / Richard D. Semba; title: The more things change : a historical perspective on the debate over vitamin advertising in the United States / Rima D. Apple; title: Safer, healthier workers : advances in occupational disease and injury prevention / Anthony Robbins and Philip J. Landrigan; title: A prejudice which may cloud the mentality : the making of objectivity in early twentieth-century occupational health / Christopher Sellers; title: Family planning : a century of change / Jacqueline E. Darroch; title: Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and Mill Village Alley : race, class, and birth control in public health / Johanna Schoen; title: Changing the face of America : water fluoridation and oral health / Brian A. Burt and Scott L. Tomar; title: The task is a political one : the promotion of fluoridation / Gretchen Ann Reilly; title: Drivers, wheels, and roads : motor vehicle safety in the twentieth century / Ann M. Dellinger, David A. Sleet, and Bruce H. Jones; title: The nut behind the wheel : shifting responsibilities for traffic safety since 1895 / Daniel M. Albert; title: Heart disease and stroke mortality in the twentieth century / Kurt J. Greenlund ... [et al.]; title: Dietary policy, controversy and proof : doing something versus waiting for the definitive evidence / Karin Garrety; title: Thank you for not smoking : the public health response to tobacco-related mortality in the United States / Michael P. Eriksen ... [et al.]; title: The first surgeon general's report on tobacco : science and the state in the new age of chronic disease / Allan M. Brandt; title: Epilogue : Public health at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Jeffrey P. Koplan and Stephen B. Thacker