A Concise History of Public Health - Carney, Jan Kirk
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"This textbook is a history of public health focusing on key moments, discoveries, events, and people - to tell stories important to public health history. The idea is that a topic, theme, or event is the basis for a description (narrative or story) about the important historical event, discovery, awakening, etc. to best engage the reader. Research sources include primary sources from newspapers of the time, government documents (where available) and currently-written textbooks and papers or journal articles about public health and medicine. Illustrations have been chosen and utilized to…mehr

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"This textbook is a history of public health focusing on key moments, discoveries, events, and people - to tell stories important to public health history. The idea is that a topic, theme, or event is the basis for a description (narrative or story) about the important historical event, discovery, awakening, etc. to best engage the reader. Research sources include primary sources from newspapers of the time, government documents (where available) and currently-written textbooks and papers or journal articles about public health and medicine. Illustrations have been chosen and utilized to depict important visual aspects of the event or era to complement the narratives. In addition, the importance of each aspect of public health history is linked to its relevance to public health today"--
Autorenporträt
Dr. Jan K. Carney is Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy and Professor of Medicine at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. She earned an AB from Middlebury College, MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Carney is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Preventive Medicine. She previously served as Vermont's Commissioner of Health under three gubernatorial administrations. Dr. Carney is active in public health practice, research, education, service, and directs the Larner College of Medicine's Graduate Programs in Public Health. Dr. Carney is a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP). She has previously authored Public Health in Action: Practicing in the Real World and Controversies in Public Health and Health Policy.