LEADER 03471nam 22006374a 450 001 9910780832003321 005 20230721024935.0 010 $a1-280-49233-3 010 $a9786613587565 010 $a0-8135-4850-0 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813548500 035 $a(CKB)2520000000007887 035 $a(EBL)889674 035 $a(OCoLC)593295662 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336389 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11258436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336389 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10278257 035 $a(PQKB)11614340 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC889674 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8057 035 $a(DE-B1597)530180 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813548500 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL889674 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10367303 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358756 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000007887 100 $a20081031d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCultivating health$b[electronic resource] $eLos Angeles women and public health reform /$fJennifer Lisa Koslow 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 1 $aCritical issues in health and medicine 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4528-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPaid 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. 330 $aAt the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate contaminated food, lived in decaying urban tenements, and had little access to medical care. In a city that demanded change, Los Angeles women, rather than city officials, championed the call to action. Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government. Koslow highlights women's home health care and urban policy-changing accomplishments and pays tribute to what would become the model for similar service-based systems in other American centers. 410 0$aCritical issues in health and medicine. 606 $aHealth care reform$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWomen health reformers$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aHealth care reform$xHistory 615 0$aWomen health reformers$xHistory 676 $a362.1/04250979494 700 $aKoslow$b Jennifer Lisa$f1970-$01478987 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780832003321 996 $aCultivating health$93694859 997 $aUNINA