At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing
an industrial boom, many working families often ate contaminated
food, lived in decaying urban tenements, and had little access to
medical care. In a city that demanded change, Los Angeles women,
rather than city officials, championed the call to action.
Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details
women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of
government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival
research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores
community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and
the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early
twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women
implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the
groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to
government.
Koslow highlights women's home health care and urban
policy-changing accomplishments and pays tribute to what would
become the model for similar service-based systems in other
American centers.
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