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Rothstein, William Gene was born on February 26, 1937 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Meyer and Bertha Ann (Goldman) Rothstein.
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Readings in American Health Care is an introduction to the historical development and current status of a wide variety of health care topics. The readings, written by historians, sociologists, economists, physicians, nurses, and public health researchers, are organized in sections: • Basic Concepts: mortality trends, concepts of disease, changes in medical therapy • Public Health: AIDS, cigarette smoking, preventive medicine, fluoridation • Health Care Professions: cardiology, pathology, women in medicine, nursing, podiatry, midwives • Health Care Organizations: hospitals, HMOs • Mental Illness • Financing Health Care • Medical Education • Issues: abortion, ethical issues, cancer control, prenatal care, home care, the pharmaceutical industry • Background Readings: American medicine from 1920 to midcentury. The readings were chosen especially for course use in history, sociology, public health, and related fields, but can also provide useful background reading for anyone interested or involved in American health care. Each selection includes an introduction, questions for the reader, and a bibliography. Scholars and students alike will find the book an invaluable resource.
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In this extensively researched history of medical schools, William Rothstein, a leading historian of American medicine, traces the formation of the medical school from its origin as a source of medical lectures to its current status as a center of undergraduate and graduate medical education, biomedical research, and specialized patient care. Using a variety of historical and sociological techniques, Rothstein accurately describes methods of medical education from one generation of doctors to the next, illustrating the changing career paths in medicine. At the same time, this study considers medical schools within the context of the state of medical practice, institutions of medical care, and general higher education. The most complete and thorough general history of medical education in the United States ever written, this work focuses both on the historical development of medical schools and their current status.
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Paper edition, with a new preface, of a 1972 work. The author, a sociologist, explains how ...19th-century medicine did not disappear; it evolved into modern medicine...; and he discusses such topics as active versus conservative intervention, reciprocity between physicians and the public in adopt
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The greatest revolutions in twentieth-century public health and preventive medicine have been the concepts of risk factors and healthy lifestyles as methods of preventing disease. A risk factor is anything that increases the risk of disease in an individual. Lifestyle refers to the individual's personal behaviors with regard to risk factors. Identifying risk factors and modifying them by changing lifestyles in order to prevent disease has become ubiquitous as a strategy in public health. The book examines the history and evolution of the concepts of risk factors and healthy lifestyles and their application to coronary heart disease, the major chronic disease of the twentieth century. The first part contains a history of the use of statistics in public health and medicine, and the ways in which various industries developed the concept of the risk factor. The second part describes the concept of healthy lifestyles, which was devised by municipal public health departments and life insurance companies in the early part of the century. The third and fourth parts examine how the concepts of risk factors and lifestyles were applied to the primary chronic disease of the twentieth century -- coronary heart disease. The focus of the book overall is on coronary heart disease as a public health, rather than a medical, issue, and the various concepts that have been used in preventing it. William G. Rothstein is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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(The greatest revolutions in twentieth century public heal...)
The greatest revolutions in twentieth century public health and preventive medicine have been the concepts of risk factors and healthy lifestyles as methods of preventing disease. A risk factor is anything that increases the risk of disease in an individual. Lifestyle refers to the individual's personal behaviors with regard to risk factors. Identifying risk factors and modifying them by changing lifestyles in order to prevent disease has become ubiquitous as a strategy in public health. The book examines the history and evolution of the concepts of risk factors and healthy lifestyles and their application to coronary heart disease, the major chronic disease of the twentieth century. The first part contains a history of the use of statistics in public health and medicine, and the ways in which various industries developed the concept of the risk factor. The second part describes the concept of healthy lifestyles, which was devised by municipal public health departments and life insurance companies in the early part of the century. The third and fourth parts examine how the concepts of risk factors and lifestyles were applied to the primary chronic disease of the twentieth century - coronary heart disease. The focus of the book overall is on coronary heart disease as a public health, rather than a medical, issue, and the various concepts that have been used in preventing it. William G. Rothstein is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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Rothstein, William Gene was born on February 26, 1937 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Meyer and Bertha Ann (Goldman) Rothstein.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959; Master of Arts, University of Minnesota, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell Univercity, 1965.
Research analyst, Prudential Insurance, Newark, 1964-1966; from assistant professor to associate professor, U. Maryland.-Baltimore County, Baltimore, 1966-1988; professor, U. Maryland.-Baltimore County, Baltimore, since 1988.
(In this extensively researched history of medical schools...)
(The greatest revolutions in twentieth-century public heal...)
(The greatest revolutions in twentieth century public heal...)
( Readings in American Health Care is an introduction to ...)
(Paper edition, with a new preface, of a 1972 work. The au...)
(Paper edition, with a new preface, of a 1972 work. The au...)
Member American Association for History of Medicine, American Sociological Association.