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George Rosen's wide-ranging account of public health's long and fascinating history is an indispensable classic.

Since publication in 1958, George Rosen's classic book has been regarded as the essential international history of public health. Describing the development of public health in classical Greece, imperial Rome, England, Europe, the United States, and elsewhere, Rosen illuminates the lives and contributions of the field's great figures. He considers such community health problems as infectious disease, water supply and sewage disposal, maternal and child health, nutrition, and occupational disease and injury. And he assesses the public health landscape of health education, public health administration, epidemiological theory, communicable disease control, medical care, statistics, public policy, and medical geography.

Rosen, writing in the 1950s, may have had good reason to believe that infectious diseases would soon be conquered. But as Dr. Pascal James Imperato writes in the new foreword to this edition, infectious disease remains a grave threat. Globalization, antibiotic resistance, and the emergence of new pathogens and the reemergence of old ones, have returned public health efforts to the basics: preventing and controlling chronic and communicable diseases and shoring up public health infrastructures that provide potable water, sewage disposal, sanitary environments, and safe food and drug supplies to populations around the globe.

A revised introduction by Elizabeth Fee frames the book within the context of the historiography of public health past, present, and future, and an updated bibliography by Edward T. Morman includes significant books on public health history published between 1958 and 2014. For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.

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Foreword   Pascal James Imperato, MD, MPH&TM	p. ix
Public Health, Past and Present: A Shared Social Vision   Elizabeth Fee	p. xiii
George Rosen, Public Health, and History   Edward T. Morman	p. liii
Preface to the 1958 Edition	p. lxvii
I	The Origins of Public Health	p. 1
    Sanitation and Housing	p. 1
    Cleanliness and Godliness	p. 2
    Disease and the Community	p. 2
II	Health and the Community in the Greco-Roman World	p. 5
    Greece	p. 5
    Problems of Disease	p. 5
    Diphtheria	p. 5
    Malaria	p. 6
    The Nature of Disease	p. 6
    Airs, Waters, and Places	p. 7
    Colonization and Medical Care	p. 7
    Hygiene and Health Education	p. 9
    Occupational Health	p. 9
    Public Health Administration	p. 9
    Rome	p. 10
    The Legacy of Greece	p. 10
    Water Supply and Sanitation	p. 10
    Climate, Soil, and Health	p. 13
    Disease: Endemic and Epidemic	p. 13
    The Workers'' Health	p. 14
    The Provision of Medical Care	p. 15
    Baths as Well as Bread and Circuses	p. 16
    Public Health Administration	p. 17
III	Public Health in the Middle Ages (500-1500 A.D.)	p. 18
    The Decline of Rome	p. 18
    The Middle Ages	p. 19
    The Growth of Cities	p. 20
    Sanitary Problems of Urban Life	p. 21
    Protecting the Consumer	p. 23
    Disease in the Middle Ages	p. 23
    Leprosy-The Great Blight	p. 25
    The Living Dead	p. 27
    The Black Death	p. 27
    Quarantine	p. 28
    What Causes Epidemics?	p. 30
    The Organization of Public Health	p. 31
    The Provision of Medical Care	p. 31
    Hospitals and Welfare Institutions	p. 32
    The Regimen of Health	p. 34
    The Medieval Achievement in Public Health	p. 36
IV	Mercantilism, Absolutism, and the Health of the People (1500-1750)	p. 37
    Brave New Worlds	p. 37
    Causes and Consequences	p. 38
    The Old Public Health and the New Science	p. 39
    New Diseases for New World	p. 40
    The English Sweat	p. 40
    Jail Fever and the Black Assizes	p. 41
    The Red Sickness	p. 42
    The Rickets, or the English Disease	p. 43
    Scurvy-The Black Death of the Sea	p. 43
    The Diseases of Workers	p. 44
    The Great Pox	p. 46
    The Small Pox	p. 48
    Malaria and Other Diseases	p. 49
    Contagion or Epidemic Constitution?	p. 50
    Leenwenhoek and His "Little Animals"	p. 53
    Foundations of Public of Political Administration	p. 54
    Political Arithmetic: The Bookkeeping of the State	p. 55
    Toward a National Health Policy	p. 57
    The Town and the Public Health	p. 61
    Street Cleaning and Drainage	p. 62
    The Water Supply-Toward Private Enterprise	p. 63
    The Lame, the Halt, and the Blind	p. 65
    An Age of Transition	p. 67
V	Health in a Period of Enlightenment and Revolution (1750-1830)	p. 68
    A Seed Time of History	p. 68
    Enlightenment and Reason	p. 69
    Of Human Welfare	p. 70
    An Increase of Population	p. 72
    The Campaign against Gin	p. 72
    A Slaughter of Innocents	p. 73
    All Manner of Conditions and Men	p. 74
    Lunacy and Conscience	p. 76
    Hospitals and Dispensaries	p. 78
    Improvement of Town Lift	p. 81
    Health in National Policy	p. 86
    Health Code for Enlightened Despots	p. 87
    Health and the Rights of Man	p. 90
    A Parochial Health Policy	p. 92
    The Bookkeeping of Life and Death	p. 94
    The Geography of Health and Disease	p. 96
    Advice to the People on Their Health	p. 98
    The Prevalence of Disease	p. 100
    Varialation-Like Cures Like	p. 101
    The Cow Pox and a Country Doctor	p. 103
    A World of Coal and Iron	p. 104
VI	Industrialism and the Sanitary Movement (1830-1875)	p. 106
    The Satanic Wheels	p. 106
    The Old Poor Law	p. 107
    Mobilizing the Labor Force	p. 108
    The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity	p. 109
    The View of Political Economy	p. 109
    Bentham and the Philosophic Radicals	p. 110
    Enter Mr. Chadwick	p. 110
    The New Poor Law	p. 111
    Urban Growth and the Problems of Town Life	p. 111
    Reduce Taxes by Preventing Diseases	p. 115
    The Sanitary Condition of the People	p. 118
    The Health of Towns Commission	p. 121
    The General Board of Health	p. 123
    Exit Mr. Chadwick	p. 124
    "How Quaint the Ways of Paradox!"	p. 126
    Two Steps Forward. One Step Back	p. 128
    Eppur se muove	p. 128
    Urbanism and the Origins of American Public Health in the Nineteenth Century	p. 131
    A Bookseller Turns Crusader	p. 135
    The New York Sanitary Survey of 1864	p. 137
    A Premature National Health Department	p. 140
    Social Revolution, Industrialism, and Public Hygiene in France	p. 142
    National Unification and Health Reform in Germany	p. 144
    An Era of Statistical Enthusiasm	p. 147
    Women and Children First	p. 150
    A Period of Great Epidemics	p. 157
    And Some Smaller Ones	p. 159
    Miasma versus Contagion-an Epidemiological Conundrum	p. 164
    First Steps toward International Health Organization	p. 166
VII	The Bacteriological Era and Its Aftermath (1875-1950)	p. 169
    The Specific Element in Disease	p. 169
    "A More Rational Account of the Itch"	p. 170
    A Disease of Silkworms	p. 170
    A Revolutionary Anatomist Fights a Rearguard Action	p. 171
    Ferments and Microbes	p. 173
    The Silkworm Disease and the Germ Theory	p. 175
    A Botanist Plays Host to an Unknown Doctor	p. 178
    Antisepsis and Asepsis in Surgery	p. 182
    Bacteriology and the Public Health	p. 184
    The Vanishing Diseases	p. 195
VIII	The Bacteriological Era and Its Aftermath (Concluded)	p. 200
    Economic and Social Trends in a Changing Society	p. 200
    The Welfare of Mothers and Children	p. 205
    The Health of the School Child	p. 212
    A New Kind of Nurse Appears	p. 218
    Voluntary Action for Health	p. 223
    Teaching the People about Health	p. 230
    The Rise of Scientific Nutrition	p. 237
    The Health and Welfare of the Worker	p. 245
    Better Medical Cans for the People	p. 258
    The Responsibility of Government for the Advancement of Health	p. 273
    "No Man is an Hand..."	p. 282
    "That untravell''d world, whose margin fades..."	p. 287
    Bibliography	p. 295
    Access to Primary Sources in the History of Public Health	p. 295
    Classified Bibliography of Secondary Sources	p. 296
    Subject Index	p. 345
    Name Index	p. 363