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Thomas, Karen Kruse,

Health and humanity : a history of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935-1985 / History of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 1935-1985 Karen Kruse Thomas. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. - xvii, 504 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The southern roots of public health at Johns Hopkins -- School at war -- Postwar public health science -- The school and the city -- Rethinking the public health curriculum -- The postwar geopolitics of American public health -- Missionaries and mercenaries -- The social sciences, urban health, and the Great Society -- Surviving the seventies -- The environmental revolution in public health -- Chronic disease epidemiology -- Federal funding and its discontents -- Days of reckoning and renewal.

ISBN: 9781421421087 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1421421089 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2016005169

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Johns Hopkins University. School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Schools, Public Health--history
Education, Public Health Professional--history
History, 20th Century

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Baltimore

LC Class. No.: R747.H722 / T46 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 610.71/17526

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WA 19 AM3