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Disease and Discovery : A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916-1939 /

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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fee, Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.