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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Routledge revivals
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Routledge revivals.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Contents; Part One MEDICAL AND SOCIAL TEACHERS AND TEACHING; I. Personal and Familial; II. Preparation for a Medical Career; III. My Medical Teachers: Bristowe and Murchison; IV. Other Medical Teachers and Teaching; V. Two Eastern Medical Students; VI. The Early Days of Listerism; VII. Hospitals and Listerism; VIII. Florence Nightingale; Part Two PIONEERS IN STATE MEDICINE; Introduction; IX. John Simon; X. Edwin Chadwick; XI. Other Builders of Public Health; XII. William Farr |
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XIII. Benjamin Ward RichardsonXIV. Max von Pettenkofer; XV. Epidemic Constitution -- XVI. Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology in 1880; Part Three MEDICAL PRACTICE AND PUBLIC HEALTH WORK; Introduction; XVII. Private Medical Practice; XVIII. Public Health Work along with Private Practice; XIX. Educational Work in Hygiene; XX. Whole-time Public Health Work; XXI. Housing of the People; Part Four THE CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES; XXII. The Prevention of Milk Epidemics; XXIII. The Control of Scarlet Fever; XXIV. The Control of Diphtheria; XXV. The Control of Typhoid Fever |
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XXVI. The Natural History of Rheumatic FeverXXVII. Man and Animal Diseases; XXVIII. Human Tuberculosis of Bovine Origin; XXIX. The Notification of Tuberculosis; XXX. The Earlier Administrative Control of Tuberculosis; Part Five VITAL STATISTICS AS A BASIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH WORK. SPECIAL STUDIES IN VITAL STATISTICS; XXXI. Vital Statistics; XXXII. The Registration of Sickness and its Utilisation; XXXIII. Life Tables; XXXIV. Corrected or Standardised Birth-rates; XXXV. Density of Population as Influencing Health and Life; XXXVI. Mortality from Cancer |
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Part Six THE SAFEGUARDING OF DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTHXXXVII. The Care of Infancy and Childhood; XXXVIII. Summer Diarrhoea; XXXIX. Rickets, Measles, Whooping-cough, Measles in War-time; XL. Some Social Aspects of the Health of the Child; XLI. Health at School; XLII, Cassandras; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Written as a recollection of the experiences and knowledge of Sir Arthur Newsholme, the book covers a period in which phenomenal progress was made. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public health -- History.
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Public health -- Great Britain.
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention.
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Vital statistics.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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Communicable diseases -- Prevention. |
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Public health. |
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Vital statistics. |
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Great Britain. |
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Public health -- Health and Wellbeing. -- Great Britain -- History -- Anecdotes. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943. Fifty years in public health. London, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd. [1935] (DLC) 35014104 (OCoLC)2029431 |
| ISBN |
9781317443094 (electronic bk.) |
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1317443098 (electronic bk.) |
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9781315695488 |
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1315695480 |
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9781317443070 |
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1317443071 |
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9781317443087 |
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131744308X |
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113890645X |
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9781138906457 |
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9781138906471 |
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1138906476 |
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9781138906457 |
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