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Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (February 4, 1877 – January 8, 1957) was an American bacteriologist and public health expert who was, according to the Encyclopedia of Public Health, "a seminal figure in public health, not only in his own country, the United States, but in the wider Western world."
Oct 1, 2015 · In 1920, Charles-Edward A. Winslow defined public health as. "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene ...
Jun 2, 2015 · The university was wise enough to ignore the stipulation requiring a physician, instead hiring a 38-year-old bacteriologist named Charles-Edward Amory (C.-E. A.) Winslow. He turned out to be an inspired choice beyond anyone’s expectations, except perhaps his own.
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow (1877 – 1957) was a seminal figure in public health, not only in his own country, the United States, but in the wider Western world. His vision and intellectual leadership enabled him, more than anyone else, to influence the development of public health services in the United States as well as in many European ...
Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was recognized nationally by the time of his death as the elder statesman of the American public health movement. In addition to his career as a teacher, he served as an organization leader, editor, consultant, policy formulator and writer.
Winslow was the youngest of the charter members of the Society of American Bacteriologists when that organization was founded in I 899. He became the first editor of the Journal of Bacteriology in I9I6, a position which he held until I944, when he resigned to become editor of the American Journal of Public Health.
C.-E.A. Winslow was the first chairman of the Department of Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine. This paper considers the development and changing agenda of his department, the structure of Yale University, and the maturation of public health as a discipline.
