Public health in Calcutta

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European and North American Schools of Public Health – Establishment, growth, differences and similarities

Unlike European Schools of Public Health, whose development was primarily influenced by the medical profession and was linked to the healthcare system, North American Schools of Public Health operate as independent academic institutions engaged in research and education of Public Health specialists. While Public Health has been recognised as a distinctive profession in USA and Canada for almost a century, in many European countries it is not recognized as such and, accordingly, there are no well-defined job positions for graduates. Similarities and differences between the European and American Schools of Public Health are reviewed and the importance of classification of core competences, responsibilities and scope of knowledge required for Public Health practice was pointed out as a prerequisite for accreditation of study curricula. For the professionalization of Public Health in Europe further efforts are needed.&nbsp

Year-book (Twenty-fifth anniversary). Officers, Committees, Trustees and Members. Proceedings of the Annual meeting in Chicago, September 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th, 1912

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Year-book (twenty-third Anniversary). Officers, Committees, Trustees, and Members. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting at the Hotel Astor, New York City, October 17, 18, 19, and 20, 1910

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Special Libraries, April 1941

Volume 32, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1941/1003/thumbnail.jp

Year-book (Twenty-fourth anniversary). Officers, Committees, Trustees and Members. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, September 19th, 20th, and 21st, 1911.

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Universal cures for idiosyncratic illnesses: a genealogy of therapeutic reasoning in the mental health field

Over the past decades, there has been a significant increase in prescriptions of psychotropic drugs for mental disorders. So far, most of the explanations of the phenomenon have focused on the process of medicalization, but little attention has been cast towards physicians' day-to-day clinical reasoning, and the way it affects therapeutic decision-making. This article addresses the complex relationship between aetiology, diagnosis and drug treatment by examining the style of reasoning underlying prescribing practices through an historical lens. A genealogy of contemporary prescribing practices is proposed, that draws significant comparisons between 19th-century medicine and modern psychiatry. Tensions between specific, standardized cures and specific, idiosyncratic patients have been historically at play in clinical reasoning - and still are today. This inquiry into the epistemological foundations of contemporary drug prescription reveals an underlying search for scientific legitimacy