Table of Contents:
  • The origins of public health
  • Health and the community in the Greco-Roman world
  • Public health in the Middle Ages
  • Mercantilism, absolutism and the health of the people (1500-1750)
  • Health in a period of enlightenment and revolution (1750-1830)
  • Industrialism and the sanitary movement (1830-1875)
  • The bacteriological era and its aftermath (1875-1950)
  • The bacteriological era and its aftermath (concluded).