Mission and Method - The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement

This book argues that the french led the way in the nineteenth-century public health movement.

List of contents

List of tables and illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Community, method, context; 2. The methodology of public hygiene; 3. The context of public hygiene: national public health policy; 4. Institutionalization: the health councils; 5. Investigation and moralization: occupational hygiene and industrialization; 6. Investigation and practical reform: public health in Paris; 7. Public health in Paris: investigation, salubrity, and social welfare; 8. Public health and public health movements: comparison and assessment; 9. Before Pasteur: hygienism and the French model of public health; Epilogue; Appendixes; Bibliographical note; Index.

Summary

Mission and Method challenges the prevalent notion that the British were the leaders in the nineteenth-century public health movement and set the model for similar movements elsewhere. It suggests that an active and influential french public health movement antedated the British and greatly influenced British public health leaders.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Elizabeth Fowle La Berge, Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge, La Berge Ann Elizabeth Fowler
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.09.1992
• EAN: 9780521404068
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40406-8
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 237 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 676 g
• Illustrations: 12 b/w illus. 6 tables, Zeichnungen, nicht spezifiziert, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: British Computer Society Confe; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, History of Medicine, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine