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The healthiest city : Milwaukee and the politics of health reform
- Title
- The healthiest city : Milwaukee and the politics of health reform / Judith Walzer Leavitt.
- Author
- Leavitt, Judith Walzer
- Publication
- Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press, c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA448.M5 L4 1996 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 294 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Between 1850 and the turn of the century, the population of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, exploded from 20,000 to nearly 300,000. The city's quick growth brought with it all of the problems of nineteenth-century urbanization: high death rates, infectious diseases, crowded housing, filthy streets, inadequate water supplies, and incredible stench. The Healthiest City, now available in paperback, shows how a coalition of reform supporters - including business people, clergy, women's groups, professionals, trade-union Socialists, Populists, and reform Republicans - united to demand community education and public responsibility to achieve for Milwaukee the title of "the healthiest city" by the 1930s." "In her new preface, Judith Walzer Leavitt notes that the 1993 cryptosporidiosis outbreak revealed that Milwaukeeans - and Americans in general in recent years - have paid decreasing attention to the machinery that keeps our cities operating and our citizens healthy. The bill for disinvesting in public health is paid by the public in inconvenience, in illness, and even in death."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Wisconsin
- Public health > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > History
- Health Care Reform > history
- Urban Health > history
- Milwaukee (Wis.) > Politics and government
- Public Health Administration > history
- Public Health > history
- Urban health > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > History
- Health care reform > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > History
- Public health administration > Wisconsin > Milwaukee > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Milwaukee: The City and Its Health Problems -- 2. The City Health Department -- 3. The Politics of Health Reform: Smallpox -- 4. The Politics of Health Reform: Garbage -- 5. The Politics of Health Reform: Milk -- 6. The Volunteers -- 7. The Healthiest City -- 8. The Process of Change -- Chronological Outline of Public Health History in Milwaukee.
- ISBN
- 0299151646 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96005117
- OCLC
- ocm34191741
- SCSB-4880950
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries