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"Precise, moving writing--a powerful and compelling
collection."--Joseph Hurka, author of "Fields of Light"
"The unadorned sentences often reach a conclusion whose truth
makes you catch your breath. This unpretentious book is the work of
a master."--Edith Pearlman, National Book Award finalist
"One of the most compelling stories published by the "Yale
Review"]. . . . A thoughtful, reflective, sensitive, and graceful
work."--Kai Erikson, former editor, "The Yale Review"
These are stories of unexpected encounters far from home, told
with a vivid sense of place. A white man with more wives than money
becomes Africa's least-competent thief, two Americans contemplate
love's costs and possibilities in Mexico's mountains, a seasick
missionary bumps into God on the equator. George Rosen's characters
seek, and sometimes find, a reality in which "everywhere, there is
something remarkable."
Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been
regarded as the essential international history of public health.
Describing the development of public health in classical Greece,
imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere,
Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great
figures. He considers such community health problems as infectious
disease, water supply and sewage disposal, maternal and child
health, nutrition, and occupational disease and injury. And he
assesses the public health landscape of health education, public
health administration, epidemiological theory, communicable disease
control, medical care, statistics, public policy, and medical
geography. Rosen, writing in the 1950s, may have had good reason to
believe that infectious diseases would soon be conquered. But as
Dr. Pascal James Imperato writes in the new foreword to this
edition, infectious disease remains a grave threat. Globalization,
antibiotic resistance, and the emergence of new pathogens and the
reemergence of old ones, have returned public health efforts to the
basics: preventing and controlling chronic and communicable
diseases and shoring up public health infrastructures that provide
potable water, sewage disposal, sanitary environments, and safe
food and drug supplies to populations around the globe. A revised
introduction by Elizabeth Fee frames the book within the context of
the historiography of public health past, present, and future, and
an updated bibliography by Edward T. Morman includes significant
books on public health history published between 1958 and 2014. For
seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public
Health is visionary and essential reading.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Includes Origin And Distribution Of Skull Cults, Head Trophies And
Skull Cults In The Old World, Head Trophies In America, By Erwin H.
Ackerknecht; Indian Scalping Techniques In Different Tribes, By
Gabriel Nadeau; And The Hopi Snake Dance, Fact And Fancy, Robert F.
Heizer.
Title: . An historical essay.]Publisher: British Library,
Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national
library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest
research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known
languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied
collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view
of the world. Topics include health, education, economics,
agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and
industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Rosen, Georg; null 12 . 9454.bb.5.
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