Research Catalog

Title

The contested boundaries of American public health / edited by James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz, and David Rosner.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Colgrove, James Keith.
• Markowitz, Gerald E.
• Rosner, David, 1947-

Description

viii, 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Critical issues in health and medicine

Uniform Title

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Subjects

• Attitude to Health
• Medical policy > United States
• Dissent and Disputes
• United States
• Public health > United States
• Public Health
• Federal Government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction. The Contested Boundaries of Public and Population Health / James Colgrove, Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner -- Pt. I. Public Health in a Free-Market Society -- Ch. 1. Public Health and Economics: Externalities, Rivalries, Excludability, and Politics / Sherry Glied -- Ch. 2. The Limits of Relying on Employers in an Intersectoral Public Health Partnership / Dennis P. Scanlon and Marianne M. Hillemeier -- Ch. 3. Speaking for the Public: The Ambivalent Quest of Twentieth-Century Public Health / Nancy Tomes -- Pt. II. Contested Boundaries -- Ch. 4. Environmental Health as a Core Public Health Component / Phil Brown -- Ch. 5. Paternalism and Its Discontents: Motorcycle Helmet Laws, Libertarian Values, and Public Health / Marian Moser Jones and Ronald Bayer -- Ch. 6. Prevention Strategies and Public Health: Individual and Structural Prevention in Homelessness / William McAllister, Mary Clare Lennon and Isil Celimli -- Ch. 7. Dealing with Humpty Dumpty: Research, Practice, and the Ethics of Public Health Surveillance / Amy L. Fairchild -- Ch. 8. Health Production: A Common Framework to Unify Public Health and Medicine / Alvin R. Tarlov -- Pt. III. Public Health in the Post-9/11 World -- Ch. 9. The Challenge of 9/11 to the Ideologies of Population and Public Health / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz -- Ch. 10. Public Health Preparedness: Evolution or Revolution? / Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman and Christopher D. Nelson -- Ch. 11. Blown Away: Health Care, Health Coverage, and Public Health after 9/11 and Katrina / Beatrix Hoffman -- Conclusion. Public Health Takes on Gun Violence: A Dialogue on Contested Boundaries / Mark Rosenberg and Jeremy Travis.

ISBN

• 9780813543116 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0813543118 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780813543123 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813543126 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007033568

OCLC

• ocn165048875
• 165048875
• SCSB-8854190

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries