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Presents a historical analysis of the New York City Department of Health from the 1960s to the present-day.

Thirty-six interdisciplinary essays analyze the mutual relationship between historical epidemics and the built environment. Epidemic illnesses--not only a produ

An insightful chronicle of the changing public health demands in New York City. The first permanent Board of Health in the United States was created in response

Europe's "Black Death" contributed to the rise of nation states, mercantile economies, and even the Reformation. Will the AIDS epidemic have similar dramatic ef

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in late 2002 and 2003 challenged the global public health community to confront a novel epidemic that