The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health

by Colgrove, James; Markowitz, Gerald; Rosner, David

• ISBN13: 9780813543116
• ISBN10: 0813543118
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

The role of public health services in America is generally considered to be the reduction of illness, suffering, and death. But there is no agreement about how far public health efforts should go in attempting to modify behaviors seen as lifestyle choices, or whether the field's mandate extends to intervening in broader social and economic conditions. The books thirteen essays attempt to understand what are, and what should be, the field's chief goals and activities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: The Contested Boundaries of Public and Population Health	p. 1
Public Health in a Free-Market Society	p. 13
Public Health and Economics: Externalities, Rivalries, Excludability, and Politics	p. 15
The Limits of Relying on Employers in an Intersectoral Public Health Partnership	p. 32
Speaking for the Public: The Ambivalent Quest of Twentieth-Century Public Health	p. 57
Contested Boundaries	p. 83
Environmental Health as a Core Public Health Component	p. 85
Paternalism and Its Discontents: Motorcycle Helmet Laws, Libertarian Values, and Public Health	p. 110
Prevention Strategies and Public Health: Individual and Structural Prevention in Homelessness	p. 127
Dealing with Humpty Dumpty: Research, Practice, and the Ethics of Public Health Surveillance	p. 160
Health Production: A Common Framework to Unify Public Health and Medicine	p. 176
Public Health in the Post-9/11 World	p. 201
The Challenge of 9/11 to the Ideologies of Population and Public Health	p. 203
Public Health Preparedness: Evolution or Revolution?	p. 226
Blown Away: Health Care, Health Coverage, and Public Health after 9/11 and Katrina	p. 239
Conclusion. Public Health Takes on Gun Violence: A Dialogue on Contested Boundaries	p. 257
Contributors	p. 281
Index	p. 285
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