The contested boundaries of American public health
By: edited by James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner.
Contributors: Colgrove, James Keith.; Markowitz, Gerald E.; Rosner, David, 1947-
Series: Critical issues in health and medicine
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780813543116; 9780813543123
Subjects: Medical policy -- United States; Public health -- United States; Public Health -- United States; Attitude to Health -- United States; Dissent and Disputes -- United States; Federal Government -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public health and economics : externalities, rivalries, excludability, and politics / Sherry Glied; title: The limits of relying on employers in an intersectoral public health partnership / Dennis P. Scanlon and Marianne H. Hillemeier; title: Speaking for the public : the ambivalent quest of twentieth-century public health / Nancy Tomes; title: Environmental health as a core public health component / Phil Brown; title: Paternalism and its discontents : motorcycle helmet laws, libertarian values, and public health / Marian Moser Jones and Ronald Bayer; title: Prevention strategies and public health : individual and structural prevention in homelessness / William McAllister, Mary Clare Lennon, and Işil Çelimli; title: Dealing with Humpty Dumpty : research, practice, and the ethics of public health surveillance / Amy L. Fairchild; title: Health production : a common framework to unify public health and medicine / Alvin R. Tarlov; title: The challenge of 9/11 to the ideologies of population and public health / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz; title: Public health preparedness : evolution or revolution? / Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman, and Christopher D. Nelson; title: Blown away : health care, health coverage, and public health after 9/11 and Katrina / Beatrix Hoffman.