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Intrusive Interventions : Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914 /

Intrusive Interventions is a history and critical study of public health in the Victorian and Edwardian period. Drawing on an array of archival sources from across provincial England and London, it investigates the emergence and consolidation of a set of government policies that came to be known as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mooney, Graham (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2015, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • [Contents] Introduction
  • Finding Disease in the Victorian City
  • "These Bastard Laws": Infectious Disease, Liberty, and Localism
  • Sequestration and Permeability: Isolation Hospitals
  • "Combustible Material": Classrooms, Contract Tracing, and Following-Up
  • Disinfection, Domestic Space, and the Laboratory
  • Rules for Home Living: Tuberculosis and the Consumption of Self-Help
  • Conclusion
  • Notes