PUBLIC HEALTH / HISTORY OF MEDICINE
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.
DISEASE and DISCOVERY A History of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916–1939
ELIZABETH FEE AT THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, public health was the province of parttime political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. 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, and sociopolitical approaches to public health? Should schools of public health emphasize research skills over practical training? Fee explores the many dimensions of these issues in the context of the founding of the Johns Hopkins school. As Fee demonstrates, not simply in its formation but throughout its history the School of Hygiene served as a crucible for the forces shaping the public health profession as a whole. “Developments at the Hopkins School of Hygiene are merely the platform from which the author launches into a broad investigation of early twentieth-century public health ideology in America.” — Journal of the American Medical Association Elizabeth Fee is the chief historian at the National Library of Medicine. She is the coeditor of AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease, Making Medical History: The Life and Times of
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304 pages 6 x 9 30 b&w photos
978-1-4214-2110-0
$35.00 (s) £22.50 hc
Also available as an e-book
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Henry E. Sigerist, Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine, and many other works.