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Autore |
Newsholme Arthur, Sir, <1857-1943., > |
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Titolo |
Fifty years in public health : a personal narrative with comments / / Sir Arthur Newsholme |
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Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
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1-315-69548-0 |
1-317-44309-8 |
1-317-44308-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (446 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Public health - History |
Public health - Great Britain |
Communicable diseases - Prevention |
Vital statistics |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published in 1935 by George Allen & Unwin. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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 |
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Control of Typhoid Fever |
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 |
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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<P>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.</P> |
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