Public health: the development of a discipline. Volume 1. From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era

"Public health as a discipline grew out of traditional Western medicine but expanded to include interests in social policy, hygiene, epidemiology, infectious disease, sanitation, and health education. This book, the first of a two-volume set, is a collection of important and representative hist...

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Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. 2008
Rutgers University Press
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description "Public health as a discipline grew out of traditional Western medicine but expanded to include interests in social policy, hygiene, epidemiology, infectious disease, sanitation, and health education. This book, the first of a two-volume set, is a collection of important and representative historical texts that serve to trace and to illuminate the development of conceptions, policies, and treatments in public health from the dawn of Western civilization through the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century. "
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Rutgers University Press
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medical care
medicine
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Public health: the development of a discipline. Volume 1. From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era
title Public health: the development of a discipline. Volume 1. From the age of Hippocrates to the progressive era
topic health
health service
history
medical care
medicine
toxicology
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19178312124919965949-Public-health-the-development-.htm