Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Berridge, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019968846X ISBN 13: 9780199688463

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

This Very Short Introduction outlines the nature of public health in our world today and places public health in its historical context from the earliest times, analyzing in particular the changes in public health regulation through the nineteenth century and the twentieth and twenty first centuries.

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Virginia Berridge is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London. She has edited or co-edited 12 books and is the sole author of 7 books including Marketing Health. Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health in Britain,1945-2000 (OUP, 2007) and Demons (OUP, 2013). She has written overviews of health and medicine for the Cambridge Social History of Britain and of contemporary history for the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine. She has been Chair of the Society for the Social History of Medicine and President of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 019968846X
• ISBN 13: 9780199688463
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
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