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

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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

: 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.