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Ten Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow´s Leaders
Alfred Sommer
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Description for Ten Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow´s Leaders
Paperback. Triumph, tragedy, frustration, and elation await those who set off on careers in public health, and Ten Lessons in Public Health is destined to become a classic book that puts the field into perspective. Num Pages: 120 pages, 12, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: BM; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 146 x 10. Weight in Grams: 166.
There are occasions when a story told from a personal viewpoint can illuminate a profession. Alfred Sommer's epidemiological memoir is such a book. Adventurous, illuminating, and thought provoking, "Ten Lessons in Public Health" is more than the story of one man's work. It tells the tale of how epidemiology grew into global health. The book is organized around ten lessons Sommer learned as his career took him around the world, and within these lessons he explains how the modern era of public health research was born. Three themes emerge from Sommer's story: the duty to help your fellow human beings ... Read more
There are occasions when a story told from a personal viewpoint can illuminate a profession. Alfred Sommer's epidemiological memoir is such a book. Adventurous, illuminating, and thought provoking, "Ten Lessons in Public Health" is more than the story of one man's work. It tells the tale of how epidemiology grew into global health. The book is organized around ten lessons Sommer learned as his career took him around the world, and within these lessons he explains how the modern era of public health research was born. Three themes emerge from Sommer's story: the duty to help your fellow human beings ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
166g
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421409047
SKU
V9781421409047
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About Alfred Sommer
Alfred Sommer, M.D., M.H.S., is University Distinguished Service Professor and Gilman Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University and dean emeritus of its Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is the author of Getting What We Deserve: Health and Medical Care in America, also published by Johns Hopkins; Vitamin A Deficiency: Health, Survival, and Vision; and Epidemiology and ... Read more
Reviews for Ten Lessons in Public Health: Inspiration for Tomorrow´s Leaders
Sommer is deftly able to explore his field's big ideas by directly following ordinary human stories, which not only makes the lessons easy to understand but foregrounds the reasons why to do it in the first place.
Bret McCabe Johns Hopkins Magazine Sommer's new memoir is also a gift to students-'Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders' is the subtitle-full of stories ... Read more
Bret McCabe Johns Hopkins Magazine Sommer's new memoir is also a gift to students-'Inspiration for Tomorrow's Leaders' is the subtitle-full of stories ... Read more