Read more
Informationen zum Autor Schneider, Dona Klappentext Presents a collection of representative historical texts that serve to trace and to illuminate the development of conceptions, policies, and treatments in public health from the dawn of Western civilization through the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century. This book provides annotated readings and biographical details. Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of representative historical texts that serve to trace and to illuminate the development of conceptions! policies! and treatments in public health from the dawn of Western civilization through the Progressive Era of the early twentieth century. This book provides annotated readings and biographical details. Inhaltsverzeichnis FOREWORD by Warren Winkelstein Jr.PREFACEACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONCHRONOLOGYPART 1 Early Roots1 HIPPOCRATES On Airs, Waters, and Places2 JOHN GRAUNT Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index, and Made Upon the Bills or Mortality (1662, Abriged)3 JAMES LIND A Treatise on the Scurvy (1753, Abriged)4 GEORGE BAKER An Essay Concernong the Cause of the Endemial Colic of Devonshire (1767)5 PERCIVAL POTT Cancer Scroti (c. 1775)6 EDWARD JENNER An Inquiry Into The Causes And Effects Of The Variolae Vaccinae: A Disease Discovered In Some Of The Western Counties Of England, Partucularly Gloucestershire, And Known By The Name Of the Cow-Pox (1798)7 PETER LUDWIG PANUM Observations Made During the Epidemic of Measles on the Faroe Islands in the Year 1846 (1847, Abriged)PART 2 The Sanitary Reform Movement8 WILLIAM FARR Lecture Introduction to a Course on Hygeine, or the Preservation of The Public Health On the "Table of Mortality" for the Metropolis (1840) A Short Method of Constructing Life Tables (1845)9 EDWIN CHADWICK Report on the Sanitarty Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain and On the Means of Its Improvement (1842, Abriged) A Supplementary Report on the Results of a Special Inquiry into the Practice of Interment in Towns 10 JOHN SIMON Excerpts from City of London Medical Reports (1849, 1850, 1852, Abriged)11 LEMUEL sHATTUCK Report on the Sanitary Commission of Massachucetts 1850 (1850, Abriged)12 JOHN SNOW On The Mode Of Communication Of Cholera (1854, Abriged)13 EDWARD JARVIS Insanity and Idiocy in Massachucetts-Report on the Commission on Lunacy, 185514 WILLIAM BUDD Typhoid Fever-Its Nature, Mode of Spreading, and Prevention (1873)15 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE Sanitart Condition of Hospitals and Hospital Construction (1859)16 IGNÁC SEMMELWEIS The Etiology, COncept and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever (1860, Abriged)17 ROBERT KOCH The Aetiology of Tuberculosis On Bacteriological ResearchPART 3 The Progressive Era18 JACOB A. RIIS How the Other Half Lives (1890, Abriged)19 UPTON SINCLAIR The Jungle (1905, Abriged)20 ABRAHAM FLEXNER Medical Education in the United States & Canada: A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (1910, Abriged)21 JOSEPH GOLDBERGER The Etiology of Pellagra: The Significance of Certain Epidemiological Observations With Respect Thereto (1914)22 MARGARET SANGER Family Limitation (c. 1915)23 ALICE HAMILTON Women in the Lead Industries (1919)24 ARIEL WOLMAN Chlorine Absorption and the Chlorination of WaterAFTERWORDAPPENDIX I APPENDIX IINOTESINDEXABOUT THE EDITORS...
