Fifty years in public health : a personal narrative with comments / / Sir Arthur Newsholme

• Autore: Newsholme Arthur, Sir, <1857-1943., >
• Pubblicazione: Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (446 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.10941
• Soggetto topico: Public health - History; Public health - Great Britain; Communicable diseases - Prevention; Vital statistics
• Note generali: First published in 1935 by George Allen & Unwin.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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>
• Titolo autorizzato: Fifty years in public health
• ISBN: 1-315-69548-0; 1-317-44309-8; 1-317-44308-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797487103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge revivals.