The Contested Boundaries of American Public Health

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

• ISBN13: 9780813543123
• ISBN10: 0813543126
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-30
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Columbia Univ., New York City. Examines historical evolution of public health and shows how the profession is changing in context of natural and human-made disasters. Includes public health in the post-9/11 world. For public health professionals. Softcover, hardcover available. DNLM: Public Health--United States.

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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