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Public health and municipal policy making : Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940
- Title
- Public health and municipal policy making : Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940 / Marjaana Niemi.
- Author
- Niemi, Marjaana.
- Publication
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RA395.G6 N54 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 228 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few people took an active interest in the formulation of these polices. In this book Marjaana Niemi examines the impact of different political aims and pressures on 'scientific' health policies through the analysis of public health programmes in two case studies, one in Birmingham and the other in Gothenburg. By examining early twentieth-century campaigns concerned with infant welfare and the prevention of tuberculosis, the book provides illuminating insights into the relationship between public health and the regulation of urban life. Not only does the book analyse the processes whereby different political aims became embedded in these 'apolitical' health campaigns, but it also highlights the important part that the campaigns played in urban politics and governance."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Historical urban studies series
- Uniform Title
- Historical urban studies
- Subject
- Public health > Political aspects > Great Britain
- Medical care > Political aspects > Great Britain
- Medical policy > Great Britain
- Public health > Political aspects > Sweden
- Medical care > Political aspects > Sweden
- Medical policy > Sweden
- Public Health > history
- Health Policy > history
- Urban Health > history
- Policy Making
- History, 20th Century
- Medical care > Political aspects
- Medical policy
- Public health > Political aspects
- Stadt
- Gesundheitsförderung
- Gesundheitspolitik
- Volksgezondheid
- Lokaal beleid
- United Kingdom
- Sweden
- Great Britain
- Schweden
- Großbritannien
- Zweden (land)
- Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-218) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Knowledge and the city -- 2. Industrial cities -- 3. Policy legacies -- 4. Regulating family life : campaigns against infant mortality, 1900-1940 -- 5. Shaping urban society : campaigns against tuberculosis, 1900-1940 -- 6. Contesting and negotiating public health policies -- 7. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0754603342
- 9780754603344
- LCCN
- 2006003896
- 99817395378
- OCLC
- ocm63679990
- 63679990
- SCSB-1438702
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library