Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830-1930 / / Peter Baldwin [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Baldwin Peter <1956->
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 581 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 614.4/4/09409034
• Soggetto topico: National health services - Europe - History - 19th century; Communicable diseases - Europe - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preventive variations -- Enter cholera -- Cholera comes of age -- Smallpox faces the lancet -- Syphilis between prostitution and promiscuity -- The politics of prevention.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Contagion & the State in Europe, 1830-1930
• Titolo autorizzato: Contagion and the state in Europe, 1830-1930
• ISBN: 1-107-11127-7; 0-511-00452-4; 1-280-16195-7; 9786610161959; 0-511-11741-8; 0-511-14921-2; 0-511-30951-1; 0-511-49754-7; 0-511-05182-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910778869903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II