Dr. George Pollock

2012

The Evolution of Communicable
Disease Control

This book had its origin in a “valedictory” presentation which I gave at Birmingham University in December 2008 to mark the end of my honorary senior lectureship. The fact that the earlier part of the book constitutes a reworking of familiar historical narrative represents a kind of paradox for me as I grew up in a household where Henry Ford’s dictum that “History is bunk” was the received wisdom, the result of my father’s having worked at the Ford Motor Company in Detroit in the late 1920s.