Health and humanity : a history of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935-1985 / Karen Kruse Thomas.
By: Thomas, Karen Kruse [author.].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016Description: xvii, 504 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421421087 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1421421089 (hardcover : alk. paper).Other title: History of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 1935-1985.Subject(s): Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health | Schools, Public Health -- history | Education, Public Health Professional -- history | History, 20th Century | BaltimoreGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 610.71/17526| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R747.H722 T46 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000005661 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.