Public history and health

This book is an introduction to key themes in the history of medicine, health and public health designed as reading for a range of healthcare students. The book combines wide ranging history of medicine with a contemporary look at public health issues, and is a fascinating overview of the history of 'health'. Looking at health developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a range of different countries and contexts, the book includes case studies on malaria, smallpox and more modern health issues challenges. Written by experts from the London School of Tropical Medicine, this is the definitive history of public health designed to engage and excite a wide range of health professionals.