Public Health and Municipal Policy Making: Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940

by Marjaana Niemi, Jean-Luc Pinol, Richard Rodger

Overview

Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few people took an active interest in the formulation of these policies. In this book Marjaana Niemi examines the impact of different political aims and pressures on 'scientific' health policies through the analysis of public health programmes in two case studies, one in Birmingham and the other in Gothenburg. By examining early twentieth-century campaigns concerned with infant welfare and the prevention of tuberculosis, the book provides illuminating insights into the relationship between public health and the regulation of urban life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409479765
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	06/28/2013
Series:	Historical Urban Studies Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Marjaana Niemi is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Tampere, Finland.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Knowledge and the City; Chapter 2 Industrial Cities; Chapter 3 Policy Legacies; Chapter 4 Regulating Family Life; Chapter 5 Shaping Urban Society; Chapter 6 Contesting and Negotiating Public Health Policies; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

Editorial Reviews

’In sum the book makes an important contribution both to science studies and to the history of municipal health care.’ Urban History ’...a stimulating and important work which deserves an audience not simply confined to urban and medical historians.’ Economic History Review ’This book offers valuable insights on how the formation of public health campaigns in early twentieth century was highly dependent on local social, political and economic contexts, and shows that the language of medical science could be used differently, depending on who was using it, for what purposes and where.’ Scandinavian Economic History Review

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