Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform
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Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform

Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Public Health and Politics in the Age of Reform

Cholera, the State and the Royal Navy in Victorian Britain

About this book

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 Minister Lord Russell, Admiral Lord Cochrane and local Plymouth leader Joseph Beer, McLean brings to life a vital period in British social and political history with policy consequences that reverberate today.

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Information

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Year
2005
Print ISBN
9781845110697
eBook ISBN
9780857715968
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Disease, Politics and Poverty in Nineteenth-century Britain
  6. 2. The Boroughs and Unions of South Devon
  7. 3. Naval Towns and Naval Medicine
  8. 4. The Advent of Cholera
  9. 5. The Local Boards of Health
  10. 6. Experiment at Noss
  11. 7. The Epidemic and the Royal Navy Hospital
  12. 8. Litigation, the Press and the Navy
  13. 9. Reaching the People: Controlling the Doctors
  14. 10. Conclusion
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index