Public health and municipal policy making: Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940
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1. Verfasser: Niemi, Marjaana (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Aldershot, England Ashgate ©2007
Schriftenreihe:Historical urban studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-218) and index
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; General Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Knowledge and the City; 2 Industrial Cities; 3 Policy Legacies; 4 Regulating Family Life: Campaigns Against Infant Mortality, 1900-1940; 5 Shaping Urban Society: Campaigns Against Tuberculosis, 1900-1940; 6 Contesting and Negotiating Public Health Policies; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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 th
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