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Author:

Nathanson, Constance A.

Title:

Disease prevention as social change : the state, society, and public health in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada / Constance A. Nathanson.

Publisher:

Russell Sage Foundation,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xiv, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Health Promotion.--Cross-cultural studies.
Medicine, Preventive--Cross-cultural studies.
Preventive health services--Cross-cultural studies.
Medical policy--Cross-cultural studies.
Health Policy--trends--Canada.
Health Policy--trends--France.
Health Policy--trends--Great Britain.
Health Policy--trends--United States.
Primary Prevention--trends--Canada.
Primary Prevention--trends--France.
Primary Prevention--trends--Great Britain.
Primary Prevention--trends--United States.
Public Health--trends--Canada.
Public Health--trends--France.
Public Health--trends--Great Britain.
Public Health--trends--United States.
Social change--Canada.
Social change--France.
Social change--Great Britain..
Social change--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-316) and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The nineteenth century : from miasmas to microbes -- Infant mortality -- Tuberculosis -- Smoking -- HIV/AIDS in injection drug users -- Engines of policy change : the state and civil society -- Experts and zealots -- Political cultures and constructions of risk -- Conclusion.

ISBN:

0871546442
9780871546449

OCLC:

(OCoLC)72774416

LCCN:

2006033287

Locations:

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)