Peter Baldwin

Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A broad, panoramic study of the divergence in public health policies across Europe, 1830-1930.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1108g
• ISBN-13: 9780521642880
• ISBN-10: 0521642884
• Artikelnr.: 22274888

Autorenporträt

Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State (1990) and Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Preventive variations
2. Enter cholera
3. Cholera comes of age
4. Smallpox faces the lancet
5. Syphilis between prostitution and promiscuity
6. The politics of prevention
Bibliography.

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1. Preventive variations; 2. Enter cholera; 3. Cholera comes of age; 4. Smallpox faces the lancet; 5. Syphilis between prostitution and promiscuity; 6. The politics of prevention; Bibliography.

Rezensionen

'... a quite dazzling work, imaginative in conception, broad in vision, amazingly erudite in execution, and perceptive in its judgments. There is simply no work like it - a Europe-wide juxtaposition of medicine and politics. Readers will surely relish the astonishing 'War and Peace' panorama of disease and the destiny of Europe which Baldwin paints, and the consummate mastery with which he handles his materials.' Roy Porter, late of Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine