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Healthy Boundaries - Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815-1872 (Hardcover)
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Healthy Boundaries - Property, Law, and Public Health in England and Wales, 1815-1872 (Hardcover)
Series: Rochester Studies in Medical History
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Argues that the legacies of Victorian public health in England and
Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new
ideas of property, liability, and community. This book argues that
the legacies of nineteenth-century public health in England and
Wales were not just better health and cleaner cities but also new
ideas of property and people. Between 1815 and 1872, the work of
public healthactivists led to multiple redefinitions of both,
shifting the boundaries between public and private nuisances,
public and private services, taxable and nontaxable property,
cities and suburbs, the state and the individual, and, finally,
between different kinds of individuals. These boundary-making
processes were themselves inflected by different material,
political, and ideological developments in the areas of disease,
demography, democracy, and domesticity. The changes in boundaries
manifested themselves in the creation of new nuisance laws and in
the minute control by the state of private domestic arrangements.
Most important, these changes also promoted a radical shiftin ideas
on who should bear financial responsibility for the health of
others, stimulating in the process a controversy on the nature of
community. Public health thus served as an important, if
contradictory, site in the creationof communities, enhancing the
right to health for some while simultaneously restricting in the
name of health the privacy rights of others. Relying on underused
legal sources, this book presents a fresh view of the local
originsand legal and political significance of the public health
movement of the nineteenth century. James G. Hanley is associate
professor of history at the University of Winnipeg.
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