Intrusive Interventions
Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2015
292 pages
978-1-58046-889-3 (ISBN)
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Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain, of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the most powerful sets of tools in modern public health.
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Graham Mooney
Intrusive Interventions
Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914
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10/2015
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Content
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Finding Disease in the Victorian City
"These Bastard Laws": Infectious Disease, Liberty, and Localism
Sequestration and Permeability: Isolation Hospitals
"Combustible Material": Classrooms, Contract Tracing, and Following-Up
Disinfection, Domestic Space, and the Laboratory
Rules for Home Living: Tuberculosis and the Consumption of Self-Help
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction
Finding Disease in the Victorian City
"These Bastard Laws": Infectious Disease, Liberty, and Localism
Sequestration and Permeability: Isolation Hospitals
"Combustible Material": Classrooms, Contract Tracing, and Following-Up
Disinfection, Domestic Space, and the Laboratory
Rules for Home Living: Tuberculosis and the Consumption of Self-Help
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
