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Chronic disease in the twentieth century : a history / George Weisz.

By: Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2014]Description: xvi, 307 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781421413020 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA418 .W425 2014
Contents:
"National vitality" and physical examination -- Expanding public health -- Almshouses, hospitals, and the sick poor -- New Deal politics and the National Health Survey -- Mobilizing against chronic illness at midcentury -- Long-term care -- Public health and prevention -- Health, wealth, and the state -- Alternative paths in the United Kingdom -- "Maladies chroniques" in France.
Item type: BOOKS
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-194) and index.

"National vitality" and physical examination -- Expanding public health -- Almshouses, hospitals, and the sick poor -- New Deal politics and the National Health Survey -- Mobilizing against chronic illness at midcentury -- Long-term care -- Public health and prevention -- Health, wealth, and the state -- Alternative paths in the United Kingdom -- "Maladies chroniques" in France.

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