First published in 1925, this book explores public health and its administration. It looks at both local and central health administration and surveys the various departments including The Board of Education and The Home Office. The book discusses motives, principles, and results of reform in the sector and gives a history of public health services. Other chapters include those on public health as a career, poor law and public health administration, and health insurance.
First published in 1925, this book explores public health and its administration. It looks at both local and central health administration and surv...
First published in 1936, this book is a continuation of Sir Arthur Newsholme s "Fifty Years in Public Health "and covers a wide variety of topics in relation to the subject. It is in part autobiographical as the author recollects and reflects upon his experiences of the system. The book is divided into two main periods, 1908-19, when Newsholme was the head of the Medical Department of the State s Central Health Organisation, and from 1919 to 1936, when he no longer held an official position but had the freedom and time to examine both public health and social activities. Topics explored...
First published in 1936, this book is a continuation of Sir Arthur Newsholme s "Fifty Years in Public Health "and covers a wide variety of topics i...
First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Written as a recollection of the experiences and knowledge of Sir Arthur Newsholme, the book covers a period in which phenomenal progress was made.
First published in 1935, this book provides a valuable contribution to the history of Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Written as a recollect...
First published in 1927, this book provides a complete study of the beginnings and early development of preventive medicine. It looks at the subject's underlying principles and discusses the prominent writers of the past. Topics cover infection, plague, science and medicine, poverty and preventive medicine and the prevention of cholera, amongst others.
First published in 1927, this book provides a complete study of the beginnings and early development of preventive medicine. It looks at the subject's...
First published in 1889, this book provides a guide to vital statistics- the science of numbers applied to the life-history of communities and nations- in relation to medical problems. Chapters cover a wide variety of categories including population, births and deaths, sickness, occupation and mortality, and mortality from special diseases.
First published in 1889, this book provides a guide to vital statistics- the science of numbers applied to the life-history of communities and nati...
First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes, before examining how the problem of mortality from illness had already been reduced. The third part of the book then focuses on measures for reducing and annihilating tuberculosis altogether. Being written in the earlier years of the twentieth century, the book will not only be of interest to medical students and practitioners, but also to historians.
First published in 1908, this book presents a study of tuberculosis. It looks first at its causes, before examining how the problem of mortality from ...
First published in 1929, this book is a continuation of Arthur Newsholme s "Evolution of Preventive Medicine," published in 1927, which was concerned with the possibilities in progress of prevention of disease, up to the middle of the nineteenth century. The current volume focuses on the modern period and looks at the work of Louis Pasteur in particular. It provides a complete overview of the subject of preventive medicine at the time, and should be used as the basis for more detailed study. The book will be useful to those in medical circles, as well as historians interested in...
First published in 1929, this book is a continuation of Arthur Newsholme s "Evolution of Preventive Medicine," published in 1927, which was concern...
First published in 1931, this book is the first of three volumes that describe the circumstances of medical work in several European countries at that time. Together, the three books look at public administration, local and national, in relation to the prevention of disease. This first volume focuses on the Dutch, Scandinavian and German speaking countries, as well as Switzerland. It shows that many of these countries have gone beyond most other countries in their in the socialization of medicine in several ways.
First published in 1931, this book is the first of three volumes that describe the circumstances of medical work in several European countries at t...
First published in 1931, this book is the second of a three volume set which focuses on medical work, and in particular, public administration in relation to the prevention of disease. This volume focuses on the medical circumstances of Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. It shows that many of these countries have gone beyond most other countries in their in the socialization of medicine in several ways.
First published in 1931, this book is the second of a three volume set which focuses on medical work, and in particular, public administration in r...
First published in 1931, this book is the third of a three volume set which focuses on medical work, and in particular, public administration in relation to the prevention of disease. This volume provides the most in depth account of the countries it surveys: England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland.
First published in 1931, this book is the third of a three volume set which focuses on medical work, and in particular, public administration in re...