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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Lisa Koslow is an assistant professor of history and director of the Historical Administration and Public History Program at Florida State University. Klappentext Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government. Zusammenfassung At the dawn of the Progressive Era! when America was experiencing an industrial boom! many working families often ate contaminated food and had little access to medical care. In a city that demanded change! Los Angeles women! rather than city officials! championed the call to action. This book details women's impact on remaking health policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Paid for by the Public Purse Public Authority for a Private Program Bovines, Babies, and Bacteriology Delivering the City's Children The Challenge of Constructing Venereal Disease Programs Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Index
