The Sanitarians
Subtitle: A HISTORY OF AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: June 1, 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780252062766
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Personal & public health; USA; General; Medical / General; Sociology; Health/Fitness
First sentence: In the history of American colonial health a startling contrast exists between the descriptions of the early colonial environment and the stark picture, once the colonies were established, of recurrent pestilential epidemics and omnipresent endemic diseases.