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A History of Public Health | 
| Author: George Rosen
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Category: Book
List Price: $23.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 313226
Media: Paperback
Edition: Expanded
Pages: 632
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 6 x 1.5
ISBN: 0801846455
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.4
EAN: 9780801846458
ASIN: 0801846455
Publication Date: July 1, 1993
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Product Description
Reprint of a 1958 classic public health text by Rosen, with a new introduction by Elizabeth Fee and a new biography of Rosen by Edward T. Mormon. DNLM: Rosen, George, 1910.
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| Customer Reviews:
 A Must Read for Clinicians & Public Healh Professionals September 27, 2000
Jose & Mary Betancourt (Gaithersburg, MD USA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
George Rosen's chronology of the development of public health in A History of Public Health is a MUST read for not only public health professionals, but clinicians, health administrators and any one even remotely interested in how mankind has responded to the threat of infectious disease. His very detailed presentation of the facts takes the reader back to the study of Hippocrates as he wrote the epic writings of EPIDEMICS I, EPIDEMICS II, and AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES. By placing the reader within the historical context of the period he is reviewing, the reader gains a better understanding and appreciation for the actions (or in some cases, IN-actions) of key individuals and governments. Mr. Rosen very eloquently describes how this area of PUBLIC HEALTH is actually a multi-disciplinary science, which consists of medicine, social science and others (such as engineering, public administration and economics). Rosen's unique style of presenting the facts is very direct, concise and full of detail. His thorough examination of the elements that contributed to what we know as PUBLIC HEALTH today, is thorough and informative. If there must be one weakness of the book, it is that this is a complete chronology of public health as viewed through a WESTERN, positivist view. Very little is mentioned on Eastern, traditionalist medicine in any form or fashion. However, one of the most comprehensive books on this subject ever written and one that is a MUST for all involved in the public health field.
 a simply wonderfull book that captivates February 9, 1997
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have not come across a history book in the medical field that is so scholarly and so readable. The fact that George Rosen cared so deeply about contemporary health problems shine through this well referenced volume. It should be on the shelves of every public health practitioner
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