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This textbook is a concise history of public health, focusing on key moments, discoveries, events, and people. Written in narrative format, 15 chronologically-sequenced chapters engage the student in understanding each important discovery or theme that became integral to defining the mission of Public Health today. Through the use of real sources of the day, such as newspapers, government documents, contemporary textbooks, papers or journal articles about public health and medicine, the author creates a story that will draw in the reader and illuminate the importance of that particular topic. Chapters topics may include: 1. Early Theories of Health and Disease (includes Global Perspective) 2. The 'Great Sanitary Awakening' 3. The Germ Theory of Disease 4. War and Public Health 5. The Environment and Health: Worker health and safety (Alice Hamilton); Clean Air, Water and Safer Food 6. The Antibiotic Era ' The Discovery of Penicillin 7. Counting and Cholera ' The History of Epidemiology 8. Puerperal Fever ' The Health of Mothers and Babies 9. Tropical Diseases and The Panama Canal 10. Immunizations: From Coxpox to Vaccines 11. Science, Scurvy, and Public Health Nutrition (includes Vitamins) 12. Medicine and Public Health - Laws and the Organization of Public Health 13. The Great Tobacco Wars 14. The History of AIDS 15. Advances in Science, Medicine, Technology and Public Health History (might include transfusions, anesthesia, other technologies having public health significance)

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Dr. Jan K. Carney is Associate Dean for Public Health and Health Policy and Professor of Medicine at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. She earned an AB from Middlebury College, MD from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, and Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Carney is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Preventive Medicine. She previously served as Vermont’s Commissioner of Health under three gubernatorial administrations. Dr. Carney is active in public health practice, research, education, service, and directs the Larner College of Medicine’s Graduate Programs in Public Health. Dr. Carney is a Master of the American College of Physicians (MACP) and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP). She has previously authored Public Health in Action: Practicing in the Real World and Controversies in Public Health and Health Policy. ''''

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