Health and Humanity: A History of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 1935–1985
- ISBN-10
- 1421421097
- ISBN-13
- 9781421421094
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 544
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-07-01
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Karen Kruse Thomas
Description
Health and Humanity is a comprehensive account of the ways that JHSPH has influenced the practice, pedagogy, and especially our very understanding of public health on both global and local scales.
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