Silent victories : the history and practice of public health in twentieth-century America / edited by John W. Ward and Christian Warren.

New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

xxi, 484 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Control of infectious diseases : a twentieth-century public health achievement / Alexandra M. Levitt, D. Peter Drotman, and Stephen Ostroff -- Advances in food safety to prevent foodborne disease in the United States / Robert V. Tauxe and Emilio J. Esteban -- A brief romance with magic bullets : René Dubos at the dawn of the antibiotic era / Jill E. Cooper -- A shot at protection : immunizations against infectious disease / Alan R. Hinman and Walter A. Orenstein -- Polio can be conquered : science and health propaganda in the United States from Polio Polly to Jonas Salk / Naomi Rogers -- Safe mothers, healthy babies : reproductive health in the twentieth century / Milton Kotelchuck -- Saving babies and mothers : pioneering efforts to decrease infant and maternal mortality / Jacqueline H. Wolf -- The impact of improved nutrition on disease prevention / Richard D. Semba -- The more things change : a historical perspective on the debate over vitamin advertising in the United States / Rima D. Apple -- Safer, healthier workers : advances in occupational disease and injury prevention / Anthony Robbins and Philip J. Landrigan -- A prejudice which may cloud the mentality : the making of objectivity in early twentieth-century occupational health / Christopher Sellers -- Family planning : a century of change / Jacqueline E. Darroch -- Teaching birth control on Tobacco Road and Mill Village Alley : race, class, and birth control in public health / Johanna Schoen -- Changing the face of America : water fluoridation and oral health / Brian A. Burt and Scott L. Tomar -- The task is a political one : the promotion of fluoridation / Gretchen Ann Reilly -- Drivers, wheels, and roads : motor vehicle safety in the twentieth century / Ann M. Dellinger, David A. Sleet, and Bruce H. Jones -- The nut behind the wheel : shifting responsibilities for traffic safety since 1895 / Daniel M. Albert -- Heart disease and stroke mortality in the twentieth century / Kurt J. Greenlund ... [et al.] -- Dietary policy, controversy and proof : doing something versus waiting for the definitive evidence / Karin Garrety -- Thank you for not smoking : the public health response to tobacco-related mortality in the United States / Michael P. Eriksen ... [et al.] -- The first surgeon general's report on tobacco : science and the state in the new age of chronic disease / Allan M. Brandt -- Epilogue : Public health at the dawn of the twenty-first century / Jeffrey P. Koplan and Stephen B. Thacker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.