ABSTRACT
This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:
* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times
* the Enlightenment and its effects
* centralization in Victorian Britain
* localization of health care in the United States
* population issues and family welfare
* the rise of the classic welfare state
* attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|52 pages
Population, health and pre-modern states
part 2|102 pages
The right to health and the modern state
part 3|116 pages
The obligations of health in the twentieth century
part 4|35 pages
Preparing for the twenty. first century