| Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830-1910 Volume 11 Contributor(s): Crook, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520290348 ISBN-13: 9780520290341 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| LCCN: 2015045708 |
| Series: Berkeley British Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6" W x 9" (1.61 lbs) 408 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureacratic state, but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological. Theoretically ambitious but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity. |