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.