A History of Education in Public Health: Health That Mocks the Doctors' Rules

This book discusses public health, preventative medicine and professionalization in Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century, and preparation for public health practice: into the twenty-first century.

Abstract

Public health, preventative medicine and professionalization: Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century The British diploma in public health: birth and adolescence Stratification and its discontents: professionalization and its conflicts in the British public health services The emergence of a pioneering public health programme in the United States Designing schools of public health for the United States The public's health: philosophy and practice in Britain in the twentieth century The teaching and practice of public health in the United States The British diploma in public health: hey-day and decline Preparation for public health practice: into the twenty-first century Index.