Health and Citizenship Political Cultures of Health in Modern Europe

Part I Liberal Citizenship and Public Health; Chapter 1 Before L’État-Providence: Health and Liberal Citizenship in Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary France, Matthew Ramsey; Chapter 2 An Oyster Odyssey: Science, State and Commerce in England, 1895–1905, Anne Hardy; Chapter 3 Monopoly or Freedom of Healing? the Role of Medicine in a Modernizing Society, Frank Huisman; Chapter 4 Ambivalences of Liberal Health Policy: Lebensreform and Self-Help Medicine in Belgium, 1890–1914, Evert Peeters, Kaat Wils; Part II Social Citizenship: Health in the Welfare State; Chapter 5 The Right to Health and Social Citizenship in Germany, 1848–1918, Larry Frohman; Chapter 6 From Tobacco in the War to the War on Tobacco: Smoking in Britain and Germany from c. 1900 to 1945, Rosemary Elliot; Chapter 7 Mental Health and Civic Virtue: Psychiatry, Self-Development and Citizenship in the Netherlands, 1870–2005, Harry Oosterhuis; Part III Neo-republican Citizenship: Health in the Risk Society; Chapter 8 Neo-Republican Citizenship and the British National Health Service Since 1979, Martin Powell; Chapter 9 Struggling with Science and Democracy: Public Health and Citizenship in the Netherlands, Klasien Horstman; Chapter 10 Underwriting Citizenship: The Introduction of Predictive Medicine in Private Insurance, Hoyweghen Ine Van;

Biography

Frank Huisman, Harry Oosterhuis

"Following a comprehensive review of the existing historiography, Huisman and Oosterhuis divide the history of health citizenship into three analytical end chronological categories: liberal citizenship… social citizenship… [and] neoliberal citizenship. Their analysis is a valuable historiographical innovation that moves beyond, while incorporating, classical political theories of citizenship such as that of T. H. Marshall, established in the 1950s.

The essays in Health and Citizenship innovatively assault the current frontiers of historical scholarship in this field of inquiry and substantially advance an interdisciplinary discourse on the subject making the volume a highly useful pedagogical and research tool."

Dorothy Porter, University of Galifomia, San Francisco

 

"I learned a great deal from this thoughtful – and timely – effort to understand the ordinarily implicit but powerful assumptions surrounding medicine as an aspect of citizenship and human rights. I would recommend it highly to anyone concerned with contemporary health care as well as policy history" 

Charles E. Rosenberg, Harvard University