| Description |
vi, 376 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Changing definitions of the history of public health -- Pt. 1. Population, health and pre-modern states. 1. Health and morality in the ancient world. 2. Pestilence and public order in medieval Europe. 3. Enlightenment discourse and health -- Pt. 2. The right to health and the modern state. 4. Social science and the quantitative analysis of health. 5. Epidemics and social dislocation in the nineteenth century. 6. Public health and the modern state: France, Sweden and Germany. 7. Public health and centralization: the Victorian British state. 8. The enforcement of health and resistance. 9. Localization and health salvation in the United States -- Pt. 3. The obligations of health in the twentieth century. 10. The quality of population and family welfare: human reproduction, eugenics and social policy. 11. Health and the rise of the classic welfare state. 12. Conditional citizenship: the new political economy of health -- Pt. 4. Preparing for the twenty-first century |
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13. Being fit to live in the twenty-first century: healthy bodies and somatic maps |
| Summary |
Health, Civilization and the State examines the problems of public health provision in a historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in a global context, from the ancient world through the medieval and early-modern periods to the modern state. It combines a clear account of the history of health service provision with a discussion of the social, economic and political issues at stake |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Public health -- Political aspects -- North America -- History.
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Public health -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History.
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Public health -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History.
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Public health -- Social aspects -- North America -- History.
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Social medicine -- Europe -- History.
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Social medicine -- North America -- History.
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| LC no. |
98021836 |
| ISBN |
0415122449 (hbk) |
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0415200369 (paperback) |
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