""This clear and informative volume, packed with rich sources and
illustrations, will be a must for students and scholars embarking
on a study of public health. Covering a range of geographical areas
and a wide array of topics, it also succeeds in being challenging
and thought-provoking, urging its readers to engage with the ways
in which historical research can shape our understanding of current
health issues."
Professor Hilary Marland, Centre for the History of Medicine,
University of Warwick, UK
"The great strength of Public Health in History is that its
authors show how ... history is always a dialogue between the
present and the past, and present policy is always informed by
understandings of the past. The book is comprehensive in the range
of areas covered, yet uses case-studies to explore issues in depth.
It will be essential reading for anyone who works or has an
interest in public health then and now."
Professor Michael Worboys, Centre for the History of Science,
Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, UK"
This fascinating book offers a wide ranging exploration of the
history of public health and the development of health services
over the past two centuries. The book surveys the rise and
redefinition of public health since the sanitary revolution of the
mid-nineteenth century, assessing the reforms in the post World War
II years and the coming of welfare states.
Importantly, the book also includes: A comparative examination
of why healthcare has taken such different trajectories in
different countries Case studies on malaria, sexual health, alcohol
and substance abuse Exercises enabling readers to easily interact
with and critically assess historical source material Visual
materials and illustrations ranging from a fifteenth century
syphilis sufferer to the 1980s HIV/AIDS mass media campaigns
Written by a team of historians from the London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine, this is the definitive guide for teaching
the history of public health and health services.
"Public Health in History" will engage health students,
practitioners, policy makers and anyone who would like know more
about these crucial areas of public health in countries across the
global north and global south.
Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
"Contributors Maureen Malowany, John Manton and Suzanne
Taylor.
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