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Intrusive Interventions - Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914 (Hardcover)
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Intrusive Interventions - Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England, 1840-1914 (Hardcover)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
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Examines the advent, during the mid-nineteenth century in Britain,
of techniques of infectious disease surveillance, now one of the
most powerful sets of tools in modern public health. Intrusive
Interventions is a history and critical study of public health in
the Victorian and Edwardian period. Drawing on an array of archival
sources from across provincial England and London, it investigates
the emergence and consolidation of a set of government policies
that came to be known as infectious disease surveillance, including
compulsory infectious disease notification, domestic quarantine,
mandatory removal to a hospital, contact tracing, and the
disinfection of homes and belongings. Although these were a set of
spatialized practices implemented in diverse settings such as
hospitals, schools, and disinfecting stations, their effect was to
retrain the gaze of public health onto domestic space and in the
process both disrupt and reinforce the centrality of the family and
domesticity in Victorian and Edwardian culture. Examining political
ideologies of freedom and individuality as well associal policy,
medical theory, laboratory research, material culture, and public
health practice, author Graham Mooney argues that infectious
disease surveillance reconfigured late nineteenth-century hygienic
norms and forms of citizenship. Public health practice had to be
continually reshaped in order to negate the political fallout of a
tendency toward coercion and unwanted interference -- debates that,
as the author of this important study points out,continue to
resonate today. Graham Mooney is Assistant Professor at the
Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University.
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