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
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."--Jacket
