03471nam 22006374a 450 991078083200332120230721024935.01-280-49233-397866135875650-8135-4850-010.36019/9780813548500(CKB)2520000000007887(EBL)889674(OCoLC)593295662(SSID)ssj0000336389(PQKBManifestationID)11258436(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336389(PQKBWorkID)10278257(PQKB)11614340(MiAaPQ)EBC889674(MdBmJHUP)muse8057(DE-B1597)530180(DE-B1597)9780813548500(Au-PeEL)EBL889674(CaPaEBR)ebr10367303(CaONFJC)MIL358756(EXLCZ)99252000000000788720081031d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCultivating health[electronic resource] Los Angeles women and public health reform /Jennifer Lisa KoslowNew Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20091 online resource (220 p.)Critical issues in health and medicineDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-4528-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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. Critical issues in health and medicine.Health care reformCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory20th centuryWomen health reformersCaliforniaLos AngelesHistory19th centuryHealth care reformHistoryWomen health reformersHistory362.1/04250979494Koslow Jennifer Lisa1970-1478987MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780832003321Cultivating health3694859UNINA