Healthy Boundaries - Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815-1872

Argues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new ideas of property, liability, and community.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction

1. The Laws of Nuisance before 1846: Property, Health, and Democracy in the Age of Reform
2. Private Benefit and Public Service: Paying for Sewers before 1848
3. The Boundaries of Health, 1848-70
4. The Benefits of Health: London, 1848-65
5. Healthy Domesticity, 1848-72

Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

James G. Hanley

Product details

• Authors: James G Hanley, James G. Hanley
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2016
• EAN: 9781580465564
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-556-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General