Public health and politics in the age of reform : cholera, the state, and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain /
Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the 1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean&...
| Основен автор: | McLean, David, 1949- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York : New York :
I.B. Tauris ; In the United States of America distributed by Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Серия: |
International library of historical studies ;
33. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=147501 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Public health and politics in the age of reform. |
| Резюме: |
Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the 1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based on a unique cache of documents, McLean's account exposes the struggles between local and national government as they grappled with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between policies of laissez-faire and state intervention. Describing the efforts of public health reformer Edwin Chadwick in conjunction with among others, Prime M. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 239 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index. |
| ISBN: |
1423763955 9781423763956 9780857715968 0857715968 |