Public Health in the World Today [antikvár]

PrefaceDuring 1947-48 the Harvard School of Public Health added to its curriculum, to supplement the regular instruction given in the various specialized departments of the School, a series of Public Health Forums. These conferences were conducted by distinguished guest speakers, who are familiar with various aspects of the broad subject of public health and human welfare, and who are actively concerned with improvement of community, national, and world health. The purposes of the conferences were to develop a clearer picture of the evolution, scope, and objectives of the profession of public health, to focus attention on today's complex problems in the fields of national and international health, and to stimulate realistic thinking about the solution of these problems. The papers presented at the conferences are reproduced in the following pages.The moderators for the conferences, all of whom are professors and heads of departments, were: Philip Drinker, Chem.E., Department of hidustrial Hygiene-, Gordon M. Fair, S.M., Dean, Graduate School of Engineering, Harvard University, and Head, Department of Sanitary Engineering-, John E. Gordon, Ph.D., M.D., Department of Epidemiology-, Hugh R. Leavell, M.D., Dr.P.H., Department of Public Health Practice; Hugo Muench, M.D., Dr.P.H., Department of Bio-statistics-, John C. Snyder, M.D., Department of Public Health Bacteriology-, Fredrick J. Stare, Ph.D., M.D., Department of Nutrition-, Harold C. Stuart, M.D., Department of Maternal and Child Health-, and James L. Whittenberger, M.D., Department of Physiology; also Donald L. Augustine, S.D., Department of Comparative Pathology and Tropical Medicine, Harvard Medical School.J. S. S.vu