RT Book, Section A1 Howell, Joel D. A2 Boulton, Matthew L. A2 Wallace, Robert B. SR Print(0) ID 1182680979 T1 History of Preventive Medicine, Public Health, and a Century after Milton J. Rosenau’s Preventive Medicine and Hygiene T2 Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 16e YR 2022 FD 2022 PB McGraw Hill PP New York, NY SN 9781259644511 LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182680979 RD 2024/03/29 AB The first edition of this book was published in 1913 as Milton J. Rosenau’s Preventive Medicine and Hygiene.1 It has now persisted (and thrived) for well over a century. The editors that followed Rosenau included Kenneth Maxcy, John Last, and the current co-editors, Matthew L. Boulton and Bob Wallace. Rosenau’s 1913 first edition was a path-breaking accomplishment when it first appeared, and its successors continue to be field-defining books well into the twenty-first century. This chapter will set the stage by discussing Rosenau’s life and career, as well as by considering the state of public health and the tensions that existed in and around the writing of the first edition of book, especially regarding the relationship between public health and medicine. It will then shift to consider how and when the field of “preventive medicine” was created.