TY - BOOK AU - Ward,John W. AU - Warren,Christian TI - Silent victories: the history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America SN - 0195150694 AV - RA445 .S54 2007 U1 - 362.109730904 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Public health KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - History, 20th Century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Control of infectious diseases : a twentieth-century public health achievement / Alexandra M. Levitt, D. Peter Drotman, and Stephen Ostroff -- Advances in food safety to prevent foodborne diseases in the United States / Robert V. Tauxe and Emilio J. Esteban -- A brief romance with magic bullets : René Dubos at the dawn of the antibiotic era / Jill E. Cooper -- A shot at protection : immunizations against infectious disease / Alan R. Hinman and Walter A. Orenstein -- Polio can be conquered : science and health propaganda in the United States from Polio Polly to Jonas Salk / Naomi Rogers -- Safe mothers, healthy babies : reproductive health in the twentieth century / Milton Kotelchuck -- Saving babies and mothers : pioneering efforts to decrease infant and maternal mortality / Jacqueline H. Wolf -- The impact of improved nutrition on disease prevention / Richard D. Semba -- The more things change : a historical perspective on the debate over vitamin advertising in the United States / Rima D. Apple -- Safer, healthier workers : advances in occupational disease and injury prevention / Anthony Robbins and Philip J. Landrigan -- A prejudice which may cloud the mentality : the making of objectivity in early twentieth-century occupational health / Christopher Sellers -- Family planning : a century of change / Jacqueline E. Darroch -- Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and Mill Village Alley : race, class, and birth control in public health / Johanna Schoen -- Changing the face of America : water fluoridation and oral health / Brian A. Burt and Scott L. Tomar -- The task is a political one : the promotion of fluoridation / Gretchen Ann Reilly -- Drivers, wheels, and roads : motor vehicle safety in the twentieth century / Ann M. Dellinger, David A. Sleet, and Bruce H. Jones -- The nut behind the wheel : shifting responsibilities for traffic safety since 1895 / Daniel M. Albert -- Heart disease and stroke mortality in the twentieth century / Kurt J. Greenlund ... [et al.] -- Dietary policy, controversy and proof : doing something versus waiting for the definitive evidence / Karin Garrety -- Thank you for not smoking : the public health response to tobacco-related mortality in the United States / Michael P. Eriksen ... [et al.] -- The first surgeon general's report on tobacco : science and the state in the new age of chronic disease / Allan M. Brandt -- Epilogue : Public health at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Jeffrey P. Koplan and Stephen B. Thacker -- --; 1; Control of infectious diseases : a twentieth-century public health achievement; Alexandra M. Levitt, D. Peter Drotman and Stephen Ostroff --; 2; Advances in food safety to prevent foodborne diseases in the United States; Robert V. Tauxe and Emilio J. Esteban --; 3; A brief romance with magic bullets : Rene Dubos at the dawn of the antibiotic era; Jill E. Cooper --; 4; A shot at protection : immunizations against infectious disease; Alan R. Hinman and Walter A. Orenstein --; 5; Polio can be conquered : science and health propaganda in the United States from Polio Polly to Jonas Salk; Naomi Rogers --; 6; Safe mothers, healthy babies : reproductive health in the twentieth century; Milton Kotelchuck --; 7; Saving babies and mothers : pioneering efforts to decrease infant and maternal mortality; Jacqueline H. Wolf --; 8; The impact of improved nutrition on disease prevention; Richard D. Semba --; 9; The more things change : a historical perspective on the debate over Vitamin advertising in the United States; Rima D. Apple --; 10; Safer, healthier workers : advances in occupational disease and injury prevention; Anthony Robbins and Philip J. Landrigan --; 11; A prejudice which may cloud the mentality : the making of objectivity in early twentieth-century occupational health; Christopher Sellers --; 12; Family planning : a century of change; Jacqueline E. Darroch --; 13; Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and Mill Village Alley : race, class, and birth control in public health; Johanna Schoen --; 14; Changing the face of America : water fluoridation and oral health; Brian A. Burt and Scott L. Tomar --; 15; The task is a political one : the promotion of fluoridation; Gretchen Ann Reilly --; 16; Drivers, wheels, and roads : motor vehicle safety in the twentieth century; Ann M. Dellinger, David A. Sleet and Bruce H. Jones --; 17; The nut behind the wheel : shifting responsibilities for traffic safety since 1895; Daniel M. Albert --; 18; Heart disease and stroke mortality in the twentieth century; Kurt J. Greenlund, Wayne H. Giles, Nora L. Keenan, Ann Marie Malarcher, Zhi Jie Zheng, Michele L. Casper, Gregory W. Heath and Janet B. Croft --; 19; Dietary policy, controversy and proof : doing something versus waiting for the definitive evidence; Karin Garrety --; 20; Thank you for not smoking : the public health response to tobacco-related mortality in the United States; Michael P. Eriksen, Lawrence W. Green, Corinne G. Husten, Linda L. Pederson and Terry F. Pechacek --; 21; The first surgeon general's report on tobacco : science and the state in the new age of chronic disease; Allan M. Brandt --; 22; Epilogue : public health at the dawn of the twenty-first century; Jeffrey P. Koplan and Stephen B. Thacker ER -