Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910

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Tom Crook

Governing Systems

Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910

Tom Crook

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University of California Press
14 June 2016

Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies

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: 23mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780520290358
ISBN 10: 0520290356
Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 14 June 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tom Crook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University.