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Category Archives: Week 5 (10/10)
Typhoid Fever
The reading that caught my attention, the most this week, was the reading about typhoid fever. What it seems to me is that a doctor wrote it about the lack of science in public health. William Budd writes about typhoid … Continue reading
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Public Health: Scientific Complexity
This week’s readings focused on the cause of diseases and a change in Public Health. In “The New Public Health,” Hill describes a shift in the approach to prevent disease. He says that Public Health includes fostering health and preventing … Continue reading
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Questions: Week 5, Public Health: Scientific Complexity
Much of the recent literature on the late nineteenth century “germ revolution” and its aftereffects on the practice of modern sanitation and public health tend to emphasize one major point; continuity- rather than dramatic conflict and divergence- typifies the historical … Continue reading
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