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An Epidemiological Odyssey - The Evolution of Communicable Disease Control (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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An Epidemiological Odyssey - The Evolution of Communicable Disease Control (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
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This book attempts to set communicable diseases and the efforts to
control them in a social and historical context. The primary focus
is on England with its particular history, culture and traditions.
The timescale covered is extensive and ambitious, and the many
strands that came together in the nineteenth century to form the
English public health service are clearly highlighted. However the
main emphasis of the narrative is on developments from the Second
World War onwards, in some of which the author has had a degree of
personal involvement as a schoolchild, medical student, hospital
doctor, Army doctor and public health physician. The work as a
whole reveals the persisting nature of communicable diseases
throughout history and strongly argues that, although the relevant
importance of individual infections may vary over time, man's
struggle against the microbiological world can never be relaxed.
How England has been affected is described in detail and evidence
is put forward to suggest that complacency (or at least
misjudgement) concerning the ever-present risks of emerging and
re-emerging infections, led unwisely to the dismantling in 1974 of
its established arrangements for their control, along with the
subsequent need, frequently repeated, to create new structures for
this purpose. This book will appeal strongly to all students and
practitioners of public health along with those interested in
English social history.
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