Main entry:

Fee, Elizabeth.

Title & Author:

Disease and discovery : a history of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, 1916-1939 / Elizabeth Fee.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1987.

Description:

xii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-271) and index.
Toward a new profession of public health -- Competition for the first School of Hygiene and Public Health -- Working it out: William Henry Welch and the art of negotiation -- Creating new disciplines, I: the pathology of disease -- Creating new disciplines, II: the physiology of health -- Surviving the thirties -- The community as public health laboratory -- Extending the Hopkins Model.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they could also be sanitary engineers, lawyers, or chemists- there was little agreement about the skills and knowledge necessary for practice. ... [This book] examines the conflicting ideas of public health's proper subject and scope and its search for some coherent professional unity and identity. ..[The author] uses the debates and decisions surrounding the establishment of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first independent institution for public health research and education, to crystallize the fundamental questions of the field."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0801834600 (alk. paper)
9780801834608 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health History.
Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions History.
Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health Histoire.
Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
Baltimore (Md.) School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Public health Study and teaching United States History.
Public health Research United States History.
Schools of public health United States History.
Schools, Public Health history
Santé publique Étude et enseignement États-Unis Histoire.
Santé publique Recherche États-Unis Histoire.
Écoles de santé publique États-Unis Histoire.
Schools of public health
Public health Research
Public health Study and teaching
United States.
Maryland
Maryland Baltimore Medical institutions: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 1914-1947

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 126862
Call No.: ID RA440.7.U62; ID:97-B1197
Status: Available