Fred C. Pampel (BOULDER, CO) is a professor emeritus of sociology and research at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Description
Introduction
1. The Obnoxious Bureaucrat: Edwin Chadwick and the Fight against Filth
2. The Disease Detective: John Snow, Cholera, and Infected Drinking Water
3. The Progressive Chemist: Harvey Wiley and Food Safety
4. The Social Activist: Lillian Wald and Public Health Nursing
5. The Social Epidemiologist: W. E. B. Du Bois, Racial Inequality, and Health
6. The Data Analyst: Richard Doll and Smoking
7. The International Manager: D. A. Henderson and the Global Eradication of Smallpox
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
[The Struggle for Public Health] explores this complexity clearly in seven chapters, each devoted to a public-health pioneer, from epidemiologist John Snow to nurse Lillian Wald
— NATURE
In an age when a collective public is suspect amid widespread health disparities, Pampels book is a readable reminder that giants of the past brought gifts of life and of liberty.
— Christopher Hamlin, author of Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
In seven vivid examples Pampel shares the social and scientific passion that leaders from Chadwick (clean cities) through Wald (Public Health Nursing) to Henderson (small pox eradication) brought to the improvement of human health. The Struggle for Public Health is a remarkable book that makes both people and science come alive.
— Myron Gutmann, University of Colorado Boulder
Pampel describes how public health has evolved and how it has improved health through the stories of seven visionary and tenacious pioneers who tackled big problems. Their stories engage and instruct, offering an appetite-whetting introduction to public health.
— Jon Samet, Colorado School of Public Health