Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York

Book Detail
Edition: 1
Release: 2011-06-01
Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0871540630
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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The first permanent Board of Health in the United States was created in response to a cholera outbreak in New York City in 1866. By the mid-twentieth century, thanks to landmark achievements in vaccinations, medical data collection, and community health, the NYC Department of Health had become the nation's gold standard for public health. However, as the city's population grew in number and diversity, new epidemics emerged, and the department struggled to balance its efforts between the treatment of diseases such as AIDS, multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, and West Nile Virus and the prevention of illness-causing factors like lead paint, heroin addiction, homelessness, smoking, and unhealthy foods. In Epidemic City, historian of public health James Colgrove chronicles the challenges faced by the health department in the four decades following New York City's mid-twentieth-century peak in public health provision. This insightful volume draws on archival research and oral histories to ex Download Epidemic City for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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