Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

by Porter,Dorothy

• ISBN13: 9780415122443
• ISBN10: 0415122449
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Health, Civilization and the Stateexamines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. Focusing on Britain, Continental Europe and the United States, Dorothy Porter provides a comprehensive outline of the development of public health care from the ancient world to the modern state. Covering a broad range of historical issues, the book includes discussion of: pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times; the Enlightenment and its effects; health care centralization in Victorian Britain; localization of health care in the United States; population issues and family welfare; the rise of the classic welfare state; and current attitudes towards public health as we approach the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction: Changing definitions of the history of public health	1	(8)
PART 1 Population, health and pre-modern states	9	(54)
1 Health and morality in the ancient world	11	(13)
2 Pestilence and public order in medieval Europe	24	(22)
3 Enlightenment discourse and health	46	(17)
PART 2 The right to health and the modern state	63	(100)
4 Social science and the quantitative analysis of health	65	(14)
5 Epidemics and social dislocation in the nineteenth century	79	(18)
6 Public health and the modern state: France, Sweden and Germany	97	(14)
7 Public health and centralization: the Victorian British state	111	(17)
8 The enforcement of health and resistance	128	(19)
9 Localization and health salvation in the United States	147	(16)
PART 3 The obligations of health in the twentieth century	163	(116)
10 The quality of population and family welfare: human reproduction, eugenics and social policy	165	(31)
11 Health and the rise of the classic welfare state	196	(35)
12 Conditional citizenship: the new political economy of health	231	(48)
PART 4 Preparing for the twenty-first century	279	(35)
13 Being fit to live in the twenty-first century: healthy bodies and somatic maps	281	(33)
Epilogue	314	(6)
Bibliography	320	(41)
Index	361