Documents the expansion of public health from a search for microbes to a global effort to secure a healthful environment - from physician John Snow's breakthrough in cholera prevention in mid-nineteenth-century Britain to the public health crisis in Bosnia.
This book brings to life the story of success and setbacks in public health. It documents the expansion of public health from a search for the cause of cholera to the global effort to secure a healthful environment and explores the multiple perspectives from which health must be viewed.
