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Cultivating health : Los Angeles women and public health reform / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.
- Title
- Cultivating health : Los Angeles women and public health reform / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.
- Author
- Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, 1970-
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2009.
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- Description
- xi, 204 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details the impact women had on remaking health policy in Progressive-era Los Angeles, despite the absence of government support. In a city that demanded change, women rather than city officials championed the call to action." "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."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Critical issues in health and medicine
- Uniform Title
- Critical issues in health and medicine.
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Subject
- California
- Health Care Reform
- Health Care Reform > history
- Health Care Reform > history > Los Angeles
- Health care reform > Los Angeles > History > 20th century
- History, 20th Century
- History, 20th Century > Los Angeles
- Los Angeles
- Maternal Health Services
- Maternal Health Services > history
- Maternal Health Services > history > Los Angeles
- Public Health
- Public Health > history
- Public Health > history > Los Angeles
- Public Health Nursing
- Public Health Nursing > history
- Public Health Nursing > history > Los Angeles
- Sanitation
- Sanitation > history
- Sanitation > history > Los Angeles
- Women
- Women > history
- Women health reformers > Los Angeles > History > 19th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-193) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0813545285 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780813545288 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008048061
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library