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 bureacratic state, but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological. Theoretically ambitious but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity.
By:
Tom Crook
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 11
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780520290341
ISBN 10: 0520290348
Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 14 June 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. In Search of Hygeia: Systems, Modernity, and Public Health 2. A Perfect Chaos: Centralization and the Struggle for National System 3. Numbers, Norms, and Opinions: Death and the Measurement of Progress 4. Officialism: The Art and Practice of Sanitary Inspection 5. Matter in Its Right Place: Technology and the Building of Waste Disposal Systems 6. Stamping Out: Logistics, Risk, and Infectious Diseases 7. Personal Hygiene: Cleanliness, Class, and the Habitual Self 8. Conclusion: Systems, Variations, Politics Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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
The value of the book lies in its impressive command of detail. * Journal of Modern History *
