Cultivating health : Los Angeles women and public health reform / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, 1970-

Series:

Critical issues in health and medicine.

Critical issues in health and medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health care reform--California--Los Angeles--History--20th century.

Health care reform.

Women health reformers--California--Los Angeles--History--19th century.

Women health reformers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate contaminated food, lived in decaying urban tenements, and had little access to medical care. In a city that demanded change, Los Angeles women, rather than city officials, championed the call to action. Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government. Koslow highlights women's home health care and urban policy-changing accomplishments and pays tribute to what would become the model for similar service-based systems in other American centers.

Contents:

Paid for by the public purse : public health nursing

Public authority for a private program : housing reform

Bovines, babies, and bacteriology : the problems of crafting milk reform

Delivering the city's children: midwives and municipal maternity programs

The challenge of constructing venereal disease programs.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-49233-3

9786613587565

0-8135-4850-0

OCLC:

593295662