This new digital collection features decades of academic articles, media reports, and government analysis that reveal the evolution of modern public health. Researchers in both STEM and humanities disciplines will gain valuable insight into the global origins of the field, including its successes and failures during the second half of the 20th century. Topics range from the spread of infectious disease to environmental pollution, from the World Health Organization to preparing regions for natural disasters, and beyond.
Nineteenth century European Romantic writers viewed tuberculosis as a fashionable disease. The slow but inexorable progression of the “white plague” (or consumption) and the austerity of the pale...
In June 1958, about eight months after the Soviet Union’s Sputnik satellite circled the globe, former Illinois governor and future United Nations ambassador Adlai Stevenson had an idea for another...
