{"product_id":"concise-history-of-public-health","title":"Concise History of Public Health","description":"This textbook is a concise history of public health, focusing on key moments, discoveries, events, and people. Written in narrative format, 15 chronologically-sequenced chapters engage the student in understanding each important discovery or theme that became integral to defining the mission of Public Health today.\n\nThrough the use of real sources of the day, such as newspapers, government documents, contemporary textbooks, papers or journal articles about public health and medicine, the author creates a story that will draw in the reader and illuminate the importance of that particular topic.\n\nKey Features:\n\n•\tAmple illustrations depict important visual aspects of the event or era to complement the narratives.\n•\tThe importance of each aspect of public health history is foreshadowed and linked to its relevance to public health today.\n•\tEach Public Health event is set in the context of surrounding events, such as war, politics, geography, or personalities, as public health is linked to social norms of the time.\n•\tDiscussion questions for each chapter stimulate the student to apply critical thinking skills\n\n\nChapters topics may include: \n\n1.\tEarly Theories of Health and Disease (includes Global Perspective)\n2.\tThe “Great Sanitary Awakening”\n3.\tThe Germ Theory of Disease\n4.\tWar and Public Health\n5.\tThe Environment and Health: Worker health and safety (Alice Hamilton); Clean Air, Water and Safer Food\n6.\tThe Antibiotic Era – The Discovery of Penicillin\n7.\tCounting and Cholera – The History of Epidemiology\n8.\tPuerperal Fever – The Health of Mothers and Babies\n9.\tTropical Diseases and The Panama Canal\n10.\tImmunizations: From Coxpox to Vaccines\n11.\tScience, Scurvy, and Public Health Nutrition (includes Vitamins)\n12.\tMedicine and Public Health - Laws and the Organization of Public Health\n13.\tThe Great Tobacco Wars\n14.\tThe History of AIDS\n15.\tAdvances in Science, Medicine, Technology and Public Health History (might include transfusions, anesthesia, other technologies having public health significance)","brand":"Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54251646222680,"sku":"9781284111774","price":47.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781284111774__67c1f80aee868_99a42b83-319f-4b93-b172-608d0f43361f.jpg?v=1741160111","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/concise-history-of-public-health","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}