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George Rosen's wide-ranging account of public health's long and fascinating history is an indispensable classic.Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great figures. He considers such community health problems as infectious disease, water supply and sewage disposal, maternal and child health, nutrition, and occupational disease and injury. And he assesses the public health landscape of health education, public health administration, epidemiological theory, communicable disease control, medical care, statistics, public policy, and medical geography.Rosen, writing in the 1950s, may have had good reason to believe that infectious diseases would soon be conquered. But as Dr. Pascal James Imperato writes in the new foreword to this edition, infectious disease remains a grave threat. Globalization, antibiotic resistance, and the emergence of new pathogens and the reemergence of old ones, have returned public h

Who reads A History of Public Health?

Author

Rosen, George & Imperato, Pascal James & Fee, Elizabeth

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421416014

Category

health

Subjects

Medical, Science, Medicine

Rating

3.64 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14