Full Description
The public health movement involved numerous individuals who made the case for change and put new practices into place. However despite a growing interest in how we understand history to inform current evidence-based practice, there is no book focusing on our progressive pioneers in public health and environmental health.
This book seeks to fill that gap. It examines carefully selected public and environmental health pioneers who made a real difference to the UK's health, some with international influence. Many of these pioneers were criticised in their life-times, yet they had the strength of character to know what they were doing was fundamentally right and persevered, often against many odds. Including chapters on:
· Thomas Fresh
· John Snow
· Duncan of Liverpool
· Margaret McMillan
· George Cadbury
· Christopher Addison
· Margery Spring Rice and others.
This book will help readers place pioneers in a wider context and to make more sense of their academic and practitioner work today; how evidence (and what was historically understood by it) underpins modern day practice; and how these visionary pioneers developed their ideas into practice, some not fully appreciated until after their own deaths. Pioneers in Public Health sets the tone for a renewed focus on research into evidence-based public and environmental health, which has become subject of growing international interest in recent years.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction, Jill Stewart
Chapter 2 Thomas Fresh: the First Environmental Health Practitioner, Norman Parkinson
Chapter 3 Sir John Simon: A role model for public health practice? Alan Page
Chapter 4 John Snow: a pioneer in epidemiology, Hugh Thomas
Chapter 5 Sir Joseph Bazalgette: a man of persistence and vision, Alan Page
Chapter 6 George Smith of Coalville ('the Children's Friend'): campaigner for factory and canal boats legislation, Susan Lammin
Chapter 7 Duncan of Liverpool: The first Medical Officer of Health, Stephen Battersby
Chapter 8 Margaret McMillan: advocate and practitioner of improvements in children's health, Susan Lammin
Chapter 9 George Cadbury and Corporate Social Responsibility: Working conditions, housing, education and food policy, Zena Lynch and Surindar Dhesi
Chapter 10 Charles Booth's Inquiry; Poverty, Poor Housing and Legacies for Environmental Health, Matthew Clough
Chapter 11 Christopher Addison: health visionary, man of war, Parliamentarian and practical pioneer, William Hatchett
Chapter 12 Margery Spring Rice: throwing light on hidden misery, Deirdre Mason
Chapter 13 Berthold Lubtekin: 'Nothing is too good for ordinary people', Ellis Turner
Chapter 14 Conclusions, Jill Stewart
