Title Epidemic city : the politics of public health in New York / James Colgrove

Published New York : Russell Sage Foundation, ©2011 ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) : illustrations Contents Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction -- Public Health and the American City; Chapter 1 -- To Provide or Protect; Chapter 2 -- Public Health and the People; Chapter 3 -- Dropping Dead; Chapter 4 -- A Plague of Politics; Chapter 5 -- City of Misfortune; Chapter 6 -- Chronicle of an Epidemic Foretold; Chapter 7 -- Threat Levels; Chapter 8 -- A New Public Health Agenda; Conclusion -- The Politics of Public Health; Notes; References; Index Summary Presents a historical analysis of the New York City Department of Health from the 1960s to the present-day Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-331) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Public health -- New York (State) -- New York Medical policy -- New York (State) -- New York Health Policy -- history Public Health Practice -- history Public Health Administration -- history History, 20th Century MEDICAL -- History. Medical policy Public health SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) Subject New York (State) -- New York Form Electronic book LC no. 2010052211 ISBN 9781610447089 1610447085

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