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Book SynopsisA collection of essays, which attempt to understand what are, and what should be, the public health services' chief goals and activities. It examines the historical evolution of the profession and shows how public health is changing in the context of natural and human-made disasters and the politics that surround them.
Trade ReviewThese essays are thought-provoking and speak to the core issues underpinning the public health effort across the spectrum. This book provides a solid foundation for guiding new thought among public health leaders as they work to build a new architecture to counter twenty-first century health threats. This book is a must read for anyone with a stake in protecting and promoting our public's health. -- Dr. Elin A. Gursky, Sc.D. * Fellow and Prinicipal Deputy for Biodefense, ANSER/Analytic Services Inc. *
This book is a must read for anyone with a stake in protecting and promoting our public's health. -- Dr. Elin A. Gursky, Sc.D. * Fellow and Prinicipal Deputy for Biodefense, ANSER/Analytic Services Inc. *
An important read for anyone in the field of public health,
The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health provides a timely analysis of the many ways in which the boundaries of public health are constantly being negotiated. From the emergence of chronic diseases as leading causes of death to the threats of bioterrorism in a post 9-11 world, the authors lay down a compelling, analytical foundation as they examine how far public health should extend its reach and what means are appropriate to carry out its mission. -- Georges C. Benjamin, MD, FACP, FACEP (E) * executive director of the American Public Health Association *
An invaluable introduction to an often-neglected, but increasingly visible aspect of medicine in society. This should be of interest to anyone interested in the formation of policy in the twenty-first century. -- Charles Rosenberg * Harvard University *
This valuable compendium's articles focus on the complexities of renegotiating the boundaries of intervention in promotion of a healthy population in a political climate that elevates individual responsibility and limited government. This collection should be mandatory reading for history of medicine/public health graduate students. Highly recommended. * Choice *
Table of ContentsPublic health and economics: externalities, rivalries, excludability, and politics / Sherry Glied
The limits of relying on employers in an intersectoral public health partnership / Dennis P. Scanlon and Marianne H. Hillemeier
Speaking for the public: the ambivalent quest of twentieth-century public health / Nancy Tomes
Environmental health as a core public health component / Phil Brown
Paternalism and its discontents: motorcycle helmet laws, libertarian values, and public health / Marian Moser Jones and Ronald Bayer
Prevention strategies and public health: individual and structural prevention in homelessness / William McAllister, Mary Clare Lennon, and Işil Çelimli
Dealing with Humpty Dumpty: research, practice, and the ethics of public health surveillance / Amy L. Fairchild
Health production: a common framework to unify public health and medicine / Alvin R. Tarlov
The challenge of 9/11 to the ideologies of population and public health / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
Public health preparedness: evolution or revolution? / Nicole Lurie, Jeffrey Wasserman, and Christopher D. Nelson
Blown away: health care, health coverage, and public health after 9/11 and Katrina / Beatrix Hoffman
