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Health, civilization, and the state : a history of public health from ancient to modern times

Health, civilization, and the state : a history of public health from ancient to modern times (Loan 7 times)

Material type
단행본
Personal Author
Porter, Dorothy , 1953-.
Title Statement
Health, civilization, and the state : a history of public health from ancient to modern times / Dorothy Porter.
Publication, Distribution, etc
London ;   New York :   Routledge ,   1999.  
Physical Medium
376 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
0415122449 (hbk) 0415200369 (pbk)
Bibliography, Etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
Public health -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History. Public health -- Social aspects -- North America -- History. Public health -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History. Public Health -- Political aspects -- North America -- History. Social medicine -- Europe -- History. Social medicine -- North America -- History.
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650 0 ▼a Public Health ▼x Political aspects ▼z North America ▼x History.
650 0 ▼a Social medicine ▼z Europe ▼x History.
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Contents information

Book Introduction

This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:

* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times
* the Enlightenment and its effects
* centralization in Victorian Britain
* localization of health care in the United States
* population issues and family welfare
* the rise of the classic welfare state
* attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.



This book examines the problems of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain from the ancient world, through the medieval and early modern periods to the modern state.


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Table of Contents


CONTENTS
Acknowledgements = ⅶ
Introduction : Changing definitions of the history of public health = 1
PART 1 Population, health and pre-modern states = 9
 1 Health and morality in the ancient world = 11
 2 Pestilence and public order in medieval Europe = 24
 3 Enlightenment discourse and health = 46
PART 2 The right to health and the modern state = 63
 4 Social science and the quantitative analysis of health = 65
 5 Epidemics and social dislocation in the nineteenth century = 79
 6 Public health and the modern state : France, Sweden and Germany = 97
 7 Public health and centralization : the Victorian British state = 111
 8 The enforcement of health and resistance = 128
 9 Localization and health salvation in the United States = 147
PART 3 The obligations of health in the twentieth century = 163
 10 The quality of population and family welfare : human reproduction, eugenics and social policy = 165
 11 Health and the rise of the classic welfare state = 196
 12 Conditional citizenship : the new political economy of health = 231
PART 4 Preparing for the twenty-first century = 279
 13 Being fit to live in the twenty-first century : healthy bodies and somatic maps = 281
Epilogue = 314
Bibliography = 320
Index = 361


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