| Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 Contributor(s): Baldwin, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521642884 ISBN-13: 9780521642880 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1999 Annotation: This book explains the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention, and uses medical history to illuminate broader questions of the development of statutory intervention and the comparative and divergent evolution of the modern state in Europe. |
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| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - General - Medical | History - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 614.440 |
| LCCN: 98-39337 |
| Lexile Measure: 1850 |
| Physical Information: 1.62" H x 6.41" W x 9.37" (2.36 lbs) 596 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
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Contributor Bio(s): Baldwin, Peter: - Peter Baldwin is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of The Politics of Social Solidarity: Class Bases of the European Welfare State (1990) and Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS (2005). |