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xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-271) and index |
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Previous edition: 1987 |
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"At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they could also be sanitary engineers, lawyers, or chemists- there was little agreement about the skills and knowledge necessary for practice. ... [This book] examines the conflicting ideas of public health's proper subject and scope and its search for some coherent professional unity and identity. ..[The author] uses the debates and decisions surrounding the establishment of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first independent institution for public health research and education, to crystallize the fundamental questions of the field."--Book jacket |
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Toward a new profession of public health -- Competition for the first School of Hygiene and Public Health -- Working it out: William Henry Welch and the art of negotiation -- Creating new disciplines, I: the pathology of disease -- Creating new disciplines, II: the physiology of health -- Surviving the thirties -- The community as public health laboratory -- Extending the Hopkins Model |
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Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health -- History
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Public health -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
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Public health -- Research -- United States -- History
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United States
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Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Schools, Public Health -- history
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Maryland
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