Governing Systems : Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830-1910 / Tom Crook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crook, Tom, Author.

Series:

Berkeley series in British studies ; 11.

Berkeley Series in British Studies ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--History--19th century--England.

Medical policy.

Medical policy--History--20th century--England.

Medical policy--England--History--19th century.

Medical policy--England--History--20th century.

Public health--History--19th century--England.

Public health.

Public health--History--20th century--England.

Public health--England--History--19th century.

Public health--England--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureacratic state, but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological. Theoretically ambitious but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

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

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

3. Numbers, Norms, and Opinions: Death and the Measurement of Progress

4. Officialism: The Art and Practice of Sanitary Inspection

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

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

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

8. Conclusion: Systems, Variations, Politics

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520964549

0520964543

OCLC:

930786561