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The contested boundaries of American public health / edited by James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner.
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English
Published/Created
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
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viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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RA395.A3 C732 2008
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Medical policy
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United States
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Public health
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Public health
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Colgrove, James Keith
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Markowitz, Gerald E.
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Rosner, David, 1947-
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Critical issues in health and medicine
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Summary note
At different points in history, professionals in the field of public health have addressed housing reform, education about sex and illegal drugs, hospital and clinic care, gun violence, and even bioterrorism. But there is no agreement about how far public health efforts should go in attempting to modify behaviors seen as lifestyle choices, or whether the field's mandate extends to intervening in broader social and economic conditions.
The authors of the thirteen essays in this book attempt to understand what are, and what should be, the field's chief goals and activities. Drawing on examples that include September 11th, Hurricane Katrina, motorcycle helmet laws, and more, contributors examine the historical evolution of the profession and show how public health is changing in the context of natural and human-made disasters and the politics that surround them.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Public health and economics : externalities, rivalries, excludability, and politics / Sherry Glied
The limits of relying on employers in an intersectoral public health partnership / Dennis P. Scanlon and Marianne H. Hillemeier
Speaking for the public : the ambivalent quest of twentieth-century public health / Nancy Tomes
Environmental health as a core public health component / Phil Brown --
Paternalism and its discontents : motorcycle helmet laws, libertarian values, and public health / Marian Moser Jones and Ronald Bayer
Prevention strategies and public health : individual and structural prevention in homelessness / William McAllister, Mary Clare Lennon, and Işil Çelimli
Dealing with Humpty Dumpty : research, practice, and the ethics of public health surveillance / Amy L. Fairchild --
Health production : a common framework to unify public health and medicine / Alvin R. Tarlov
The challenge of 9/11 to the ideologies of population and public health / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
Public health preparedness : evolution or revolution? / Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman, and Christopher D. Nelson
Blown away : health care, health coverage, and public health after 9/11 and Katrina / Beatrix Hoffman.
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ISBN
9780813543116 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
0813543118 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
9780813543123 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
0813543126 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2007033568
OCLC
165048875
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