The Memoirs of Donald K. Tressler
Author: Donald Kiteley Tressler
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 104
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Elizabeth Fee
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Published: 2016-06-12
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1421421127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The story of a world-renowned institution and “a broad investigation of early twentieth-century public health ideology in America” (Journal of the American Medical Association). At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they could also be sanitary engineers, lawyers, or chemists—there was little agreement about the skills and knowledge necessary for practice. In Disease and Discovery, Elizabeth Fee examines the conflicting ideas about public health’s proper subject and scope and its search for a coherent professional unity and identity. She draws on the debates and decisions surrounding the establishment of what was initially known as the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first independent institution for public health research and education, to crystallize the fundamental questions of the field. Many of the issues of public health education in the early twentieth century are still debated today. What is the proper relationship of public health to medicine? What is the relative importance of biomedical, environmental, and sociopolitical approaches to public health? Should schools of public health emphasize research skills over practical training? Should they provide advanced training and credentials for the few or simpler educational courses for the many? Fee explores the many dimensions of these issues in the context of the founding of the Johns Hopkins school. She details the efforts to define the school’s structure and purpose, select faculty and students, and organize the curriculum, and she follows the school’s growth and adaptation to the changing social environment through the beginning of World War II. As Fee demonstrates, not simply in its formation but throughout its history, the School of Hygiene served as a crucible for the forces shaping the public health profession as a whole.
Author: Mark Kurlansky
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2013-02-12
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0767930304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While working as a fur trapper in Labrador, Canada, Clarence Birdseye encountered an age-old problem: bad food and an unappealing, unhealthy diet. However, he observed that fresh vegetables wetted and left outside in the Arctic winds froze in a way that maintained their integrity after thawing. As a result, he developed his patented Birdseye freezing process and started the company that still bears his name. Birdseye forever changed the way we preserve, store, and distribute food, and the way we eat. Mark Kurlansky’s vibrant and affectionate narrative reveals Clarence Birdseye as a quintessential “can-do” American inventor—his other patents include an electric sunlamp, a harpoon gun to tag finback whales, and an improved incandescent lightbulb—and shows how the greatest of changes can come from the simplest of ideas and the unlikeliest of places.
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Publisher: UM Libraries
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 374
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 1696
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mississippi State University
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 358
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