Public Health & Preventive Medicine

With the debate over health care consuming the nation, this timely book looks at the evolution of healthcare policy in the United States throughout...

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to historic and contemporary efforts to regulate tobacco and reduce the staggering number of people w...

Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in...

This state-of-the-art book examines the effect of social relationships on physical health. It surveys and assesses the research that shows not only...

In this work, Dr. Link explains the extent of new, resurgent, and resistant diseases defying the abilities of science and medicine, or often findin...

When plague broke out in Manchuria in 1910 as a result of transmission from marmots to humans, it struck a region struggling with the introduction ...

Incorporating many rare photographs from the family albums of survivors who tell their stories, Harvard professor Julie Silver, M.D., and historian...

Color-coded terrorism alerts are issued, then lifted with no explanation. False alarms can, like crying wolf, desensitize people to a real need to ...

Without Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health, diseases festering in water sources, food and the common towel would have caused th...

Social problems, such as childhood lead poisoning, do not occur in a vacuum. As such, the definition of the problem requires a holistic examination...

Polio was the most dreaded disease of twentieth-century America. Whenever and wherever it struck, hospitals filled with victims of the virus. Many ...

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded....

By tracking the distribution of disease and pinpointing relevant risk factors, social epidemiology reveals how social problems are intrinsically li...

The media constantly bombard us with news of health hazards lurking in our everyday lives, but many of these hazards turn out to have been greatly ...

In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United ...

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. As hulking new buildings overspread blocks and pollution obscured t...

In the early fall of 1897, yellow fever shuttered businesses, paralyzed trade, and caused tens of thousand of people living in the southern United ...

This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. Th...

It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded....

This stimulating book has become a go-to text for understanding the role that social factors play in the experience of health and many diseases. Th...

Researchers often hope that their work will inform social change. The questions that motivate them to pursue research careers in the first place of...