Intrusive Interventions - Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914

Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets of tools in modern public health.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

Part One: Making Infectious Disease Surveillance
1. Finding Disease in the Victorian City
2. "These Bastard Laws": Infectious Disease, Liberty, and Localism

Part Two: Spaces of Risk and Opportunity
3. Sequestration and Permeability: Isolation Hospitals
4. "Combustible Material": Classrooms, Contract Tracing, and Following-Up
5. Disinfection, Domestic Space, and the Laboratory
6. Rules for Home Living: Tuberculosis and the Consumption of Self-Help

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Graham Mooney

Product details

• Authors: Graham Mooney
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2015
• EAN: 9781580465274
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-527-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H; Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General