Silent Victories
The History and Practice of Public Health in Twentieth Century America
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 December 2006
- ISBN 9780195150698
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 170x236x30 mm
- Weight 835 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tables, graphs and halftones. 4 line drawings. 3 maps 0
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Short description:
Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Most of this improvement resulted from the contributions of public health sciences and institutions to progressively challenge an increasing array of health problems. As old scourges of infection, perinatal mortality, and dietary deficiencies were conquered, public health's mandate expanded to take on new health threats of a changing workplace, the rise of the automobile, and chronic and complex conditions resulting from smoking, lifestyle, and other factors. Silent Victories takes a unique approach in its exploration of ten major public health issues addressed in the 20th Century: for each issue, leading scientists in the field trace the discoveries, practices and programs that reduced morbidity and mortality from disease and injury, and an accompanying chapter by an academic historian or social scientist highlights key moments or conflicts that shaped public health action on that issue.
MoreLong description:
Americans' health improved dramatically over the twentieth century. Most of this improvement resulted from the contributions of public health sciences and institutions to progressively challenge an increasing array of health problems. As old scourges of infection, perinatal mortality, and dietary deficiencies were conquered, public health's mandate expanded to take on new health threats of a changing workplace, the rise of the automobile, and chronic and complex conditions resulting from smoking, lifestyle, and other factors. Public health action often involved controversies and recriminations over past failures. In contrast, public healths many successes, even the imperfect ones, become part of the fabric of everyday life, a fact already apparent early in the last century, when C. E.A. Winslow reminded his peers that the lives saved and healthy years extended were the silent victories of public health.
Silent Victories takes a unique approach in its exploration of ten major public health issues addressed in the 20th Century: for each issue, leading scientists in the field trace the discoveries, practices and programs that reduced morbidity and mortality from disease and injury, and an accompanying chapter by an academic historian or social scientist highlights key moments or conflicts that shaped public health action on that issue. The book concludes with a look toward the challenges public health must face in the future. Together, the authors reveal the lessons of history to students, health professionals and the public seeking to understand how public health advanced the country's health in the 20th century and challenges to protecting health in the future.
Table of Contents:
Section 1 - Control of Infectious Diseases
Control of Infectious Diseases - A 20th Century Public Health Achievement
Advances in Food Safety to Prevent Foodborne Diseases in the United States
A Brief Romance with Magic Bullets: Rene' Dubos at the Dawn of the Antibiotic Era
Section 2 - Control of Disease Through Vaccination
A Shot at Protection: Immunizations Against Infectious Disease
Polio Can Be Conquered: Science and Health Propaganda in the United States from Polio Polly to Jonas Salk
Section 3 - Maternal and Infant Health
Safe Mothers, Healthy Babies: Reproductive Health in the 20th Century
Pioneering Efforts to Decrease Infant and Maternal Mortality
Section 4 - Nutrition
The Impact of Improved Nutrition on Disease Prevention
The More Things Change, ...: A Historical Perspective on the Debate over Vitamin Advertising in the United States
Section 5 - Occupational Health
Safer, Healthier Worker: Advances in Occupational Disease and Injury Prevention
A Prejudice that May Cloud the Mentality: The Making of Objectivity in Early Twentieth-Century Occupational Health (A study of the Progressive Era origins of occupational medicine)
Section 6 - Family Planning
Family Planning: A Century of Change
Teaching Birth Control on Tobacco Road and Mill Village Alley: Race, Class, and Birth Control in Public Health
Section 7 - Oral and Dental Health: Fluoridation
Changing the Face of America: Water Fluoridation and Oral Health
The Task is a Political One: The Promotion of Fluoridation
Section 8 - Vehicular Safety
Drivers, Wheels and Roads: Motor Vehicle Safety in the 20th Century
The Nut Behind the Wheel: Shifting Responsibilities for Traffic Safety Since 1895
Section 9 - Cardiovascular Disease
Heart Disease and Stroke Mortality in the 20th Century
Dietary Policy, Controversy and Proof: Doing Something Versus Waiting for the Definitive Evidence
Section 10 - Tobacco and Disease Prevention
Thank You for Not Smoking: The Public Health Response to Tobacco Related Mortality in the United States
The First Surgeon Generals Report on Tobacco: Science and the State in the New Age of Chronic Disease
Section 11 - Concluding Chapter
Public Health at the Dawn of the 21st Century
