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Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930.

This is a highly original study of public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden - with particular regard to cholera, smallpox and syphilis. Its use of medical history illuminates important questions of the development of statutory intervention and the evolution of the modern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baldwin, Peter, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; CHAPTER 1 Preventive variations; CHAPTER 2 Enter cholera; CHAPTER 3 Cholera comes of age; CHAPTER 4 Smallpox faces the lancet; CHAPTER 5 Syphilis between prostitution and promiscuity; CHAPTER 6 The politics of prevention; Index.