Description
The inspiring story of how we overcame a history of infectious disease, poisonous environments, and early death and unlocked an explosion in human potentialand a vision for the work ahead to optimize human flourishing in the twenty-first century
Michelle Williams understands what too many have forgotten: Individual wellness and collective well-being are Huffington, founder and CEO of Thrive Global
Public health is an unusual disciplinea combination of science, sociology, politics, and logisticswith a simple goal: to create the conditions for human thriving. Despite a century of massive improvements in our health and quality of life, Americansreeling from our disastrous pandemic response, epidemics of depression and isolation, and a failing healthcare systemare understandably distrustful of public health. But the true history of public health doesnt just reveal one of the greatest feats in human historyour great escape from early death and infectious diseaseit points toward a future of even greater improvements. The cure for everything? Its all of us, working together for our collective health.
Michelle A. Williams, one of the countrys true innovators in public health, here tells the dramatic hidden history of public health in America: a story of how radicals and renegadesfrom W.E.B. Du Bois to Alice Hamilton to the activists of ACT UPand the institutions and infrastructure we built together helped transform our world. As she takes readers through these dramatic stories, she draws out their deeper lessons. In the end, she makes a powerful argument that it is public health that should drive our countrys policies and politicsthat if our policies fail to increase the health and well-being of everyone, regardless of race or economic status, we have failed as a society.
Here is a dramatic, sweeping history with a galvanizing vision for how we can address new threats and complete the unfinished business of public health.
Author: Michelle A. Williams
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: One World
Published: 02/03/2026
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9780593595541
Language: English
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.