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The Commonwealth Fund, New York

Public Health is People: An institute on mental health in public health held at Berkeley, California, 1948

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Title: Public Health is People: An institute on mental health in public health held at Berkeley, California, 1948
Author: Ethel L. Ginsburg
Publisher: The Commonwealth Fund, New York
Published: 1950
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 241
Catalogs: Public Health, Psychology, History of Medicine
Description: Ex-library. Original blue cloth binding with faded gilt lettering on spine. No dust-jacket. Spine and boards are faded, edges are slightly frayed and corners are exposed, cover is stamped in blue ink. Title page is also stamped, "School of Nursing Reading Room." Hinges are weak. Interior is otherwise free of marking. This book is a product of an institute held at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley in 1948, in which thirty health officers selected from throughout California met with eight psychiatrists, three pediatricians with psychiatric training, and five public health leaders, to discuss and share ideas about human growth and emotional development, motivations of behavior, common human needs, and interpersonal relationships as a way of making departments of public health more effective. Participants included Benjamin Spock, M.D., Leona Baumgartner, M.D., Milton J. E. Senn, M.D., Edward S. Rogers, M.D., Emmy Sylvester, M.D., and others. From the nursing history collection of Sarah Abrams. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 241 pages, octavo.