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Intrusive interventions : public health, domestic space, and infectious disease surveillance in England, 1840-1914 /

The politics of public health in modern democracies concerns the balance between rights and responsibilities. This equilibrium of citizenship is under perpetual negotiation, but it was particularly intense in mid-nineteenth-century Britain when public health became deeply embedded as a state practic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mooney, Graham (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2015.
Colección:Rochester studies in medical history ; v. 33.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: pt. One Making Infectious Disease Surveillance
  • 1. Finding Disease in the Victorian City
  • 2. "These Bastard Laws": Infectious Disease, Liberty, and Localism
  • pt. Two Spaces of Risk and Opportunity
  • 3. Sequestration and Permeability: Isolation Hospitals
  • 4. "Combustible Material": Classrooms, Contact Tracing, and Following-Up
  • 5. Disinfection, Domestic Space, and the Laboratory
  • 6. Rules for Home Living: Tuberculosis and the Consumption of Self-Help.