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Activists and advocates : Toronto's Health Department, 1883-1983 /
For more than a century, Toronto's Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department's staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
Dundurn Press,
1990.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | For more than a century, Toronto's Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department's staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness and communicable disease control procedures that have made the city a healthy place to live. This centennial history anlyzes the complex interaction of politics, patronage and professional aspirations which determine the success or failure of specific policies and programs. As such, it fills a long neglected g. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781554880652 1554880653 1550020722 9781550020724 9781459713826 1459713826 |