1st Edition
Public Health and Municipal Policy Making Britain and Sweden, 1900–1940
By Marjaana Niemi
Copyright 2007
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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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 policies. 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... Read more
Chapter 1 Knowledge and the City; Chapter 2 Industrial Cities; Chapter 3 Policy Legacies; Chapter 4 Regulating Family Life; Chapter 5 Shaping Urban Society; Chapter 6 Contesting and Negotiating Public Health Policies; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
Biography
Marjaana Niemi is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Tampere, Finland.
’In sum the book makes an important contribution both to science studies and to the history of municipal health care.’ Urban History ’...a stimulating and important work which deserves an audience not simply confined to urban and medical historians.’ Economic History Review ’This book offers valuable insights on how the formation of public health campaigns in early twentieth century was highly dependent on local social, political and economic contexts, and shows that the language of medical science could be used differently, depending on who was using it, for what purposes and where.’ Scandinavian Economic History Review
