Book Review: A History of Public Health
A book review by Matteo Pinna Pintor of ‘A History of Public Health‘ by George Rosen. Ebola and Zika outbreaks in the tropics make the reissue of this classic of medical history a timely event. Written in the late 1950s by a pioneer of American health education, the volume is a retrospective tour de force which tracks the evolution of public health from classical antiquity to the welfare state, focusing largely on