A history of education in public health : health that mocks the doctors' rules / Elizabeth Fee; Roy M. Acheson

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction.-- 2. Public health, preventive medicine, and professionalization : Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century.-- 3. The British diploma in public health : birth and adolescence.-- 4. Stratification and its discontents : professionalization and conflict in the British public health service.-- 5. The emergence of pioneering public health education programmes in the United States.-- 6. Designing schools of public health for the United States.-- 7.The public's health : philosophy and practice in Britain in the twentieth century.--