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The story of the founding and early years of the nation's first dedicated school of public health has been reissued to coincide with the school's centennial celebration.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. In Disease and Discovery, Elizabeth Fee examines the conflicting ideas about public health's proper subject and scope and its search for a coherent professional unity and identity. She draws on the debates and decisions surrounding the establishment of what was initially known as 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. Many of the issues of public health education in the early twentieth century are still debated today. What is the proper relationship of public health to medicine? What is the relative importance of biomedical, environmental, an

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Author

Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health;Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health.;Fee, Elizabeth

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press;Project Muse

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421421124

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Medical, Humanities