Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth-Century AmericaTo quote Thomas Jefferson, "A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable". This book reviews 10 areas of public health, each with one chapter written by a scientist (mostly ...
Silent Victories: The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth Century America. New York, NY: Oxford; 2006.Tobacco control in the United States... V Cokkinides,P Bandi,C Mcmahon,... - 《Ca Cancer J Clin》 被引量: 644发表: 2010年 Advances in Food Safety to Prevent Foodborne...
The History of Public Health in the Ancient World Ø.Larsen, inInternational Encyclopedia of Public Health, 2008 Public health practices, like dietary rules or special behavioral patterns, are often linked to ancient cultures and religions. Old water supplies or sewage systems had obvious hygienic ...
The first chapter of this book describes the origins of international public health in the Americas in the 19th century, leading up to the foundation of what later became PAHO in 1902. Subsequent chapters, making up the majority of the book, describe the history of PAHO and its work to impr...
Continued advances in public health were the principal basis for the explosion of population growth, which in turn made more difficult the provision of other social services. Nevertheless, educational coverage continued to expand, and state schools increased their share of students at the expense of ...
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: John Parascandola suggests that Sex, Sin, and Science can provide the general reader with an introduction to the history of syphilis and public health policy in America. Although he believes the book will offer materials of in...
Brimble organized the local firewatch (the Macmillan air-raid precaution staff are pictured) and received a wound during the Blitz that compromised his health in the years after the war.Throughout the Second World War, Macmillan produced a series of war pamphlets. In 1941, Nature described ...
Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive account of American social welfare history from theDOI: 10.1080/03612759.1974.9947302 被引量: 350 ...
In the real world, as a practical matter, motives are frequently mixed and often quite impossible to determine. Unambiguous definition is nonetheless a prerequisite to practical determinations about what is and is not an example of play. How are sports chosen for the Olympics?Even tug-of-war ...
Andrew,Aisenberg - 《Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences》 被引量: 0发表: 2015年 Medicine and Society in America the history of American medicine, and traces the changing experienceof health, disease, and the healing professions from the colonial era to the early ... R Harr...