Another feature of postwar public health concern was the shift from individual hygiene back to the environment (Hays 1987; Gottlieb 1993). To many, these heart diseases and cancers, along with other diseases and pathological conditions that seemed even more serious—for example, other forms of cancer, birth defects, lowered sperm counts—had broader structural causes and could […]

Traditions of market regulation affected public health more broadly. Concern about water quality in metropolitan London, for example, reflected consumer outrage at high prices and poor quality and quantity well before there was any epidemiological evidence that such water was causing cholera. Equally, public willingness to accept that epidemiological evidence was tied to anger at […]

1.2 The history and development of public health in developed countries Oxford Textbook of Public Health 1.2 The history and development of public health in developed countries   Christopher Hamlin Introduction   Themes and problems in the history of public health The public health of epidemic crisis: reaction The public health of communal life: police […]