Cultivating health : Los Angeles women and public health reform / / Jennifer Lisa Koslow

• Autore: Koslow Jennifer Lisa <1970->
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/04250979494
• Soggetto topico: Health care reform - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century; Women health reformers - California - Los Angeles - History - 19th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultivating health
• ISBN: 1-280-49233-3; 9786613587565; 0-8135-4850-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821580203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical issues in health and medicine.