Dorothy Porter

Health, Civilization and the State

A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9780415122443
• ISBN-10: 0415122449
• Artikelnr.: 21246910

Autorenporträt

Dorothy Porter

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Dorothy Porter; Part 1 Population
health and pre-modernstates
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 2 Health and morality inthe ancient world
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 3 Pestilence and publicorder in medieval Europe
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 4 Enlightenment discourseand health
Dorothy Porter; Part 2 The right to health and themodern state
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 5 Social science and thequantitative analysis of health
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 6 Epidemics and socialdislocation in the nineteenth century
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 7 Public health and themodern state: France
Sweden and Germany
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 8 Public health andcentralization: the Victorian British state
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 9 The enforcement ofhealth and resistance
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 10 Localization and healthsalvation in the United States
Dorothy Porter; Part 3 The obligations of health inthe twentieth century
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 11 The quality ofpopulation and family welfare: human reproduction
eugenics and socialpolicy
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 12 Health and the rise ofthe classic welfare state
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 13 Conditionalcitizenship: the new political economy of health
Dorothy Porter; Part 4 Preparing for the twenty.first century
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 14 Being fit to live inthe twenty-first century: healthy bodies and somatic maps
Dorothy Porter; Chapter 15 Epilogue
Dorothy Porter;