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Health and humanity : a history of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935-1985

Title
Health and humanity : a history of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935-1985 / Karen Kruse Thomas.
Author
Thomas, Karen Kruse
Publication
  • Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Description
xvii, 504 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates; 24 cm
Subject
  • Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health > History > 20th century
  • Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health
  • Schools of public health > Baltimore > History > 20th century
  • Schools, Public Health > history
  • Education, Public Health Professional > history
  • History, 20th Century
  • Baltimore
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The southern roots of public health at Johns Hopkins -- School at war -- Postwar public health science -- The school and the city -- Rethinking the public health curriculum -- The postwar geopolitics of American public health -- Missionaries and mercenaries -- The social sciences, urban health, and the Great Society -- Surviving the seventies -- The environmental revolution in public health -- Chronic disease epidemiology -- Federal funding and its discontents -- Days of reckoning and renewal.
ISBN
  • 9781421421087
  • 1421421089
  • 9781421421094 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1421421097 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2016005169
OCLC
  • ocn937368235
  • 937368235
  • SCSB-14174639
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries