Product Description

This paperback edition of George Rosen's classic account of the history of public health supplements the original text with Elizabeth Fee's introduction and Edward T. Morman's biographical essay and bibliography.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #283371 in Books
• Published on: 1993-07-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 632 pages

From Library Journal
Rosen, professor of health education at Columbia University's School of Health and Administrative Medicine and editor of the American Journal of Public Health , first offered this volume in 1958. His text covers the evolution of public health in ancient Greece and Rome, Europe, and the United States and profiles individuals who influenced the field. This edition includes a new introduction covering today's health problems along with a new bibliography and a biographical essay on Rosen. For academic and public libraries.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

""George Rosen's history of public health, which follows international development from their Graeco-Roman origins up to the 1950s, has not yet been superseded as a comprehensive introductory survey of the subject... This will be an invaluable resource for all students of the subject, facilitating access to the relevant literature on a wide range of subjects, from specific diseases, through the experience of individual countries, to such areas of public health concern as education, statistics, mental health and nursing." -- Medical History

Book Info
Reprint of a 1958 classic public health text by Rosen, with a new introduction by Elizabeth Fee and a new biography of Rosen by Edward T. Mormon. DNLM: Rosen, George, 1910.

Customer Reviews

A Must Read for Clinicians & Public Healh Professionals
George Rosen's chronology of the development of public health in A History of Public Health is a MUST read for not only public health professionals, but clinicians, health administrators and any one even remotely interested in how mankind has responded to the threat of infectious disease. His very detailed presentation of the facts takes the reader back to the study of Hippocrates as he wrote the epic writings of EPIDEMICS I, EPIDEMICS II, and AIRS, WATERS AND PLACES. By placing the reader within the historical context of the period he is reviewing, the reader gains a better understanding and appreciation for the actions (or in some cases, IN-actions) of key individuals and governments. Mr. Rosen very eloquently describes how this area of PUBLIC HEALTH is actually a multi-disciplinary science, which consists of medicine, social science and others (such as engineering, public administration and economics). Rosen's unique style of presenting the facts is very direct, concise and full of detail. His thorough examination of the elements that contributed to what we know as PUBLIC HEALTH today, is thorough and informative. If there must be one weakness of the book, it is that this is a complete chronology of public health as viewed through a WESTERN, positivist view. Very little is mentioned on Eastern, traditionalist medicine in any form or fashion. However, one of the most comprehensive books on this subject ever written and one that is a MUST for all involved in the public health field.

a simply wonderfull book that captivates
I have not come across a history book in the medical field that is so scholarly and so readable. The fact that George Rosen cared so deeply about contemporary health problems shine through this well referenced volume. It should be on the shelves of every public health practitioner