Body and City

by Sheard,Sally

• ISBN13: 9781840146752
• ISBN10: 1840146753
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A provocative survey of new research in the history of urban public health, Body and City links the approaches of demographic and medical history with the methodologies of urban history and historical geography. It challenges older methodologies, offering new insights into the significance of cultural history, which has largely been overlooked by previous histories of public health. This book explores important issues and experiences in the public health arena in diverse European settings from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
List of tables	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Acknowledgements	xiii
General editors' preface	xiv
Preface	xvi
Body and city: medical and urban histories of public health	1	(16)
Sally Sheard
Helen Power
Ritual and public health in the early medieval city	17	(24)
Peregrine Horden
Languages of plague in early modern France	41	(9)
Colin Jones
Copenhagen 1711: Danish authorities facing the plague	50	(9)
Peter Christensen
Fighting for public health: Dr Duncan and his adversaries, 1847--63	59	(30)
Paul Laxton
Town Hall and Whitehall: sanitary intelligence in Liverpool, 1840--63	89	(20)
Gerry Kearns
Working-class experiences, cholera and public health reform in nineteenth-century Switzerland	109	(14)
Flurin Condrau
Jakob Tanner
Public health discourses in Birmingham and Gothenburg, 1890--1920	123	(20)
Marjaana Niemi
Choices for town councillors in nineteenth-century Britain: investment in public health and its impact on mortality	143	(23)
Robert Millward
Frances Bell
Economics and infant mortality decline in German towns, 1889--1912: household behaviour and public intervention	166	(28)
John Brown
The decline of the urban penalty: milk supply and infant welfare centres in Germany, 1890s--1920s	194	(21)
Jorg Peter Vogele
Wolfgang Woelk
Silke Fehlemann
Index	215