This lively informative and comprehensive history covers in a highly readable way the story of a major innovation in the history of our federal public health service the centers for disease control and prevention cdc fitzhugh mullans 1989 plagues and politics dealt with the us public health. In the only history of its kind etheridge traces the development of the centers for disease control from its inception as a malaria control unit during world war ii through the mid 1980s. Full text full text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version get a printable copy pdf file of the complete article 299k or click on a page image below to browse page by page. 1 review in the only history of its kind etheridge traces the development of the centers for disease control from its inception as a malaria control unit during world war ii through the mid 1980s. Sentinel for health a history of the centers for disease control tom d y chin journal of public health policy volume 15 pages 109 112 1994cite this article 8 accesses metrics details download to read the full article text authors tom d y chin view author publications you can also search for this author in pubmed google scholar rights and permissions reprints and permissions