03277nam 2200685 a 450 991080688920332120200520144314.01-107-11127-70-511-00452-41-280-16195-797866101619590-511-11741-80-511-14921-20-511-30951-10-511-49754-70-511-05182-4(CKB)111004366731706(EBL)144656(OCoLC)437072466(SSID)ssj0000129548(PQKBManifestationID)11134167(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000129548(PQKBWorkID)10078421(PQKB)11211806(UkCbUP)CR9780511497544(MiAaPQ)EBC144656(Au-PeEL)EBL144656(CaPaEBR)ebr10014927(CaONFJC)MIL16195(PPN)26135583X(EXLCZ)9911100436673170619980812d1999 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContagion and the state in Europe, 1830-1930 /Peter Baldwin1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press19991 online resource (xiii, 581 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-61628-X 0-521-64288-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preventive variations -- Enter cholera -- Cholera comes of age -- Smallpox faces the lancet -- Syphilis between prostitution and promiscuity -- The politics of prevention.This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence the styles of precaution adopted? Or was it, as Peter Baldwin argues, a matter of more basic differences between nations, above all their geographic placement in the epidemiological trajectory of contagion, that helped shape their responses and their basic assumptions about the respective claims of the sick and of society, and fundamental political decisions for and against different styles of statutory intervention? Thus the book seeks to use medical history to illuminate broader questions of the development of statutory intervention and the comparative and divergent evolution of the modern state in Europe.National health servicesEuropeHistory19th centuryCommunicable diseasesEuropeHistory19th centuryNational health servicesHistoryCommunicable diseasesHistory614.4/4/09409034Baldwin Peter544177MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910806889203321Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830-19304121588UNINA