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Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830-1910
Tom Crook
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Paperback. When and how did public health become modern? This book offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies. Num Pages: 408 pages, 31 b/w images. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; HBJD1; MBN; MBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 29. Weight in Grams: 562.
When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureaucratic state but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological. Theoretically ambitious yet empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone ... Read more
When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureaucratic state but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological. Theoretically ambitious yet empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Berkeley Series in British Studies
Condition
New
Weight
561g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520290358
SKU
V9780520290358
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About Tom Crook
Tom Crook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University.
Reviews for Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830-1910
Tom Crook has produced something of a tour de force, finding an original take on a subject already much traversed by accomplished scholars such as Anne Hardy and Christopher Hamlin. The result is a pleasure to read: the writing lyrical and lucid, and the text moving easily between theoretical frames and rich empirical exposition.
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