Governing Systems Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England 1830 1910 1st Edition by Tom Crook ISBN 0520290348 9780520290358

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ISBN 10: 0520290348 
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Author: Tom Crook
Victorian England has long been recognized as one of the “homes” of modern public health, influencing developments in Europe, the United States and, eventually, much beyond. Recent scholarship, however, has served to undermine any clear sense of the modernity of what was once seen as a progressive, modernizing project that served as the prelude to the emergence of the twentieth-century welfare state. All that once seemed solidly modern—progress and developmental direction; science and humanitarian endeavor; revolutions and rapid change and innovation—has melted away amid an insistence on contingent choices, as well as invariably complex mixtures of science and politics, continuity and change, and theories and practices.This account restores the modernity of public health in Victorian and Edwardian England. It does so by arguing that it was during the early Victorian period when a modern sense of historical progress and administrative—even utopian—possibility began to inform public health reform, which henceforth became a matter of building bureaucratic and technological systems of unprecedented size and complexity. It was also at this point when a series of modern, dialectical processes concerning different levels, agents, and temporalities of governance began to structure how England’s public health system was conceived and practiced as a matter of ongoing reform. Centralization and localization; bureaucratization and democratization; and greater chronological compression and greater temporal depth and historicity—it was in the grip ofthese dynamic processes that a modern public health system was forged in England.

Governing Systems Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England 1830–1910 1st Table of contents:

CHAPTER 1 In Search of Hygeia: Systems, Modernity, and Public Health

CHAPTER 2 A Perfect Chaos: Centralization and the Struggle for National System

CHAPTER 3 Numbers, Norms, and Opinions Death and the Measurement of Progress

CHAPTER 4 Officialism: The Art and Practice of Sanitary Inspection

CHAPTER 5 Matter in Its Right Place: Technology and the Building of Waste Disposal Systems

CHAPTER 6 Stamping Out: Logistics, Risk, and Infectious Diseases

CHAPTER 7 Personal Hygiene: Cleanliness, Class, and the Habitual Self

CHAPTER 8 Conclusion: Systems, Variations, Politics

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