Table of Contents

Section 1--Control of Infectious Diseases:
1: Stephen Ostroff, Peter Drotman, Alexandra M. Levitt: Control of Infectious Diseases--A 20th Century Public Health Achievement
2: Robert V. Tauxe, Emilio J. Esteban: Advances in Food Safety to Prevention Foodborne Diseases in the United States
3: Jill E. Cooper: A Brief Romance with Magic Bullets: Rene' Dubos at the Dawn of the Antibiotic Era
Section 2--Control of Disease Through Vaccination:
4: Walter Orenstein, Alan R. Hinman: A Shot at Protection: Immunizations Against Infectious Disease
5: Naomi Rogers: Polio Can Be Conquered: Science and Health Propaganda in the United States from Polio Polly to Jonas Salk
Section 3--Maternal and Infant Health:
6: Milton Kotelchuck: Safe Mothers, Healthy Babies: Reproductive Health in the 20th Century
7: Jacqueline H. Wolf: Pioneering Efforts to Decrease Infant and Maternal Mortality
Section 4--Nutrition:
8: Richard D. Semba: The Impact of Improved Nutrition on Disease Prevention
9: Rima D. Apple: The More Things Change, ...: A Historical Perspective on the Debate over Vitamin Advertising in the United States
Section 5--Occupational Health:
10: Phillip Landrigan, Anthony Robbins: Safer, Healthier Worker: Advances in Occupational Disease and Injury Prevention
11: Christopher Sellers: A Prejudice that May Cloud the Mentality: The Making of Objectivity in Early Twentieth-Century Occupational Health (A study of the Progressive Era origins of occupational medicine)
Section 6--Family Planning:
12: Jacqueline E. Darroch: Family Planning: A Century of Change
13: Johanna Schoen: Teaching Birth Control on Tobacco Road and Mill Village Alley: Race, Class, and Birth Control in Public Health
Section 7--Oral and Dental Health: Fluoridation:
14: Brian A. Burt, Scott L. Tomar: Changing the Face of America: Water Fluoridation and Oral Health
15: Gretchen Ann Reilly: The Task is a Political One: The Promotion of Fluoridation
Section 8--Vehicular Safety:
16: David Sleet, Ann Dellinger, Bruce Jones: Drivers, Wheels and Roads: Motor Vehicle Safety in the 20th Century
17: Daniel M. Albert: The Nut Behind the Wheel: Shifting Responsibilities for Traffic Safety Since 1895
Section 9--Cardiovascular Disease:
18: Kurt Greenlund, Wayne H. Giles, Nora L. Keenan, Ann Marie Malarcher, Zhi Jie Zheng, Michele L. Casper, Gregory W. Heath, Janet B. Croft: Heart Disease and Stroke Mortality in the 20th Century
19: Karin Garrety: Dietary Policy, Controversy and Proof: Doing Something Versus Waiting for the Definitive Evidence
Section 10--Tobacco and Disease Prevention:
20: Michael Eriksen, Lawrence Green, Corinne Husten, Linda Pederson, Terry Pechacek: Thank You for Not Smoking: The Public Health Response to Tobacco Related Mortality in the United States
21: Allen M. Brandt: The First Surgeon Generals Report on Tobacco: Science and the State in the New Age of Chronic Disease
Section 11--Concluding Chapter:
22: Jeffrey P. Koplan, Stephen B. Thacker: Public Health at the Dawn of the 21st Century

Reviews

"A summary of America's foremost public health successes as summarzied by prominent scientists and historians. To this end, the book succeeds admirably."--Doody's
"John Ward and Christian Warren and their 42 contributors have produced a very good book about the history and practice of public health in the United States with an unusual and insightful approach...the book provides well-documented content and context in a useful way and with an enjoyable presentation. Each area is well-worth reading."--Inquiry
"A summary of America's foremost public health successes as summarzied by prominent scientists and historians. To this end, the book succeeds admirably."--Doody's
"John Ward and Christian Warren and their 42 contributors have produced a very good book about the history and practice of public health in the United States with an unusual and insightful approach...the book provides well-documented content and context in a useful way and with an enjoyable presentation. Each area is well-worth reading."--Inquiry