We trace the shifting definitions of the American public health profession's mission as a
social reform and science-based endeavor. Its authority coalesced in the late nineteenth and …

The release of the American Heart Association's 2030 Impact Goal and associated metrics
for success underscores the importance of cardiovascular health and cardiovascular …

Whereas some experts welcome e-cigarettes as a pathway to reducing tobacco use, others
characterize them as dangerous products that could undermine efforts to denormalize …

As bioethics emerged in the 1960s and 1970s and began to have enormous impacts on the
practice of medicine and research–fuelled, by broad socio‐political changes that gave rise …

In 1891, officers of the United States Public Health Service began examining immigrants at
the nation's borders for" loathsome and dangerous contagious diseases." First introduced as …

The appearance and spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) on a global level
raised vital legal and ethical issues. National and international responses to SARS have …

The CDC is poised to issue new recommendations for testing for HIV in adults, adolescents,
and pregnant women. Drs. Ronald Bayer and Amy Fairchild write that these moves signal …

Amy L. Fairchild is a public health historian and professor. Her work at the intersection of
history and policy includes questions of immigration restriction, quarantine, and the social …

Tuberculosis (TB) began to decline in the Western world in the mid-to late 1800s. In the
United States, the disease receded until the mid-1980s, when that trend was reversed …

This is the first history of public health surveillance in the United States to span more than a
century of conflict and controversy. The practice of reporting the names of those with disease …