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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester :
University of Rochester Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Rochester studies in medical history ;
v. 33. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.