Public health and municipal policy making: Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940

"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 polices. In this book Marjaana Niemi examines the impact of different political aims and pressures on &...

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Main Author: Niemi, Marjaana (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England Ashgate 2006
Series:Historical urban studies series
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Summary:"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 polices. 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. Not only does the book analyse the processes whereby different political aims became embedded in these 'apolitical' health campaigns, but it also highlights the important part that the campaigns played in urban politics and governance."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:X, 228 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780754603344

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