Public Health: The Development of a Discipline, from the Age of Hippocrates to the Progressive Era Volume 1

by Dona Schneider

Book Overview

Public health as a discipline grew out of traditional Western medicine but expanded to include interests in social policy, hygiene, epidemiology, infectious disease, sanitation, and health education. This book, the first of a two-volume set, is a collection of important and representative historical texts that serve to trace and to illuminate the development of conceptions, policies, and treatments in public health from the dawn of Western civilization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813542324
• ISBN13: 9780813542324
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"