The History of Public Health and the Modern State (Welcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) (Clio Medica 26)

About this book

In his pioneering History of Public Health, published in 1958, George Rosen, the great medical historian and professor of public health at Yale University, suggested that 'The protection and promotion of the health and welfare of its citizens is considered to be one of the most important functions of the modern state.'1