Pioneers in Public Health

<p>The public health movement involved numerous individuals who made the case for change and put new practices into place. However despite a growing interest in how we understand history to inform current evidence-based practice there is no book focusing on our progressive pioneers in public health and environmental health. </p><p></p><p>This book seeks to fill that gap. It examines carefully selected public and environmental health pioneers who made a real difference to the UK’s health some with international influence. Many of these pioneers were criticised in their life-times yet they had the strength of character to know what they were doing was fundamentally right and persevered often against many odds. Including chapters on:</p><p></p><ul> <br><br><p></p> <li>Thomas Fresh</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>John Snow</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Duncan of Liverpool</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Margaret McMillan</li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>George Cadbury </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Christopher Addison </li> <br><br> <br><br><p></p> <li>Margery Spring Rice and others. </li> </ul><p></p><p>This book will help readers place pioneers in a wider context and to make more sense of their academic and practitioner work today; how evidence (and what was historically understood by it) underpins modern day practice; and how these visionary pioneers developed their ideas into practice some not fully appreciated until after their own deaths. <i>Pioneers in Public Health</i> sets the tone for a renewed focus on research into evidence-based public and environmental health which has become subject of growing international interest in recent years. </p>