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Forging a Social Science of Prevention in the United States, 1950-2005
This thesis offers a critical account of the rise of “prevention science,” a field that coalesced in the United States during the 1990s. Prevention scientists borrow methods from public health and evidence-based medicine to design preventative interventions for a range of problems they deem …