Public Health: The Development of a Discipline

Cloth Price: $90.00
Paper Price: $45.95 

Subtitle: Volume 2, Twentieth-Century Challenges
Edited and with an introduction by Dona Schneider and David E. Lilienfeld
Subject: Health and Medicine
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5008-4
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-5009-1
Pages: 824 pages
Publication Date: August 2011

Praise:

"Schneider and Lilienfeld have provided a volume that is sorely needed for all students of public health. The articles included are an excellent sampling of the classic studies and detail the development and evolution of public health."—Manning Feinleib, Professor of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

"A valuable book for the rapidly growing number of students in graduate and undergraduate schools and programs of public health. The editors are to be commended for their text selection and insightful comments that help frame the material." —Bernard Goldstein, Former dean, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health

Description:

Published in 2008, the first volume of Public Health focused on issues from the dawn of western civilization through the Progressive era. Volume 2 defines the public health challenges of the twentieth century--this reference covers not only how the discipline addressed the problems of disease, but how it responded to economic, environmental, occupational, and social factors that impacted public health on a global scale. Major illnesses are addressed, along with lifestyle concerns. Chapters also explore maternal-child and women's health, dental public health, health economics and ethics, and the role of philanthropy. Each chapter begins with an in-depth introduction, followed by three original articles that illustrate the problem. The volume is enhanced with a detailed chronology of public health events, as well as appendices that contain many of the original documents that ushered public health into the new millenium.

DONA SCHNEIDER is professor and associate dean at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The recipient of multiple teaching and service awards, she has taught several thousand students epidemiology and public health. DAVID A. LILIENFELD is an internationally-known physician epidemiologist and medical historian. The winner of the Society of Epidemiological Research's Professors' Prize in the History of Epidemiology, he has published extensively on the history of epidemiology and public health. Schneider and Lilienfeld are also the coeditors of Public Health, Volume 1 (Rutgers University Press).