For more than a century, Toronto’s Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department’s staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness and communicable disease control procedures that have made the city a healthy place to live.
This centennial history anlyzes the complex interaction of politics, patronage and professional aspirations which determine the success or failure of specific policies and programs. As such, it fills a long neglected gap in our understanding of the development of local health services.
Using Toronto’s changing circumstances as a backdrop, the book details the evolution of the international public health movement through its various phases culminating in the modern emphasis on health promotion and health advocacy. By so doing, it demonstrates the significant contribution of preventive medicine and public health activities to Canadian life
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- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 362.1/09713/541
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 1550020722 9781554880652
- LCCN
- RA186.T6
- LCCN Item number
- M32 1990eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (334 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603047 (OCoLC)277579959 (CaOOCEL)410427
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Contents 5
- Foreword 7
- Acknowledgments 9
- Introduction 11
- Chapter One: Activists and Advocates: The Pioneers, 1883–1929 17
- Chapter Two: Professionalizing Public Health: The Medical Bureaucrats 34
- Chapter Three: Forging A Professional Identity: Public Health Inspection and Public Health Nursing 52
- Chapter Four: Improving the Quality of City Life: The Sanitation Division 71
- Chapter Five: From Producer to Consumer: Protecting Toronto's Food Supply 94
- Chapter Six: Safeguarding Human Life: Fighting Smallpox and Tuberculosis 117
- Chapter Seven: Discovery and Application: The Triumph of Prevention 137
- Chapter Eight: Modernizing Motherhood: Health Education 160
- Chapter Nine: "Keeping the Well Child Well": School Health Programs 186
- Chapter Ten: Administration or Advocacy?: STD and Family Planning 212
- Chapter Eleven: Limits to Prevention: Adult Health Problems 233
- Chapter Twelve: Contemporary Community Concerns: Chronic Diseases and Senior Citizens 251
- Chapter Thirteen: Old Enemies, New Battles: Fluoridation and Air Pollution 266
- Chapter Fourteen: Environmental Politics: The Catalyst for Change 275
- Conclusion 292
- Notes 300
- Note on Sources 321
- Selected Bibiliography 323
- Illustration Credits 327
- Index 328
- A 328
- B 328
- C 328
- D 329
- E 330
- F 330
- G 330
- H 330
- I 331
- J 331
- K 331
- L 331
- M 331
- N 332
- O 332
- P 332
- Q 333
- R 333
- S 333
- T 334
- U 334
- V 334
- W 335
- Y 335