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Health and Humanity A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935–1985 / Karen Kruse Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Karen Kruse, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health.
- History--20th Century.
- History.
- Education--History.
- Education.
- Schools of public health.
- Schools, American--History.
- Schools, American.
- Public health--History.
- Public health.
- Baltimore (Md.)--History.
- Baltimore (Md.).
- Medical Subjects:
- Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (545 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Health and Humanity is a comprehensive account of the ways that JHSPH has influenced the practice, pedagogy, and especially our very understanding of public health on both global and local scales.
- Contents:
- The southern roots of public health at Johns Hopkins
- School at war
- Postwar public health science
- The school and the city
- Rethinking the public health curriculum
- The postwar geopolitics of American public health
- Missionaries and mercenaries
- The social sciences, urban health, and the Great Society
- Surviving the seventies
- The environmental revolution in public health
- Chronic disease epidemiology
- Federal funding and its discontents
- Days of reckoning and renewal.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2109-7
- OCLC:
- 951436814
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