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Public Health and Municipal Policy Making - Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Public Health and Municipal Policy Making - Britain and Sweden, 1900-1940 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Public health policies had a profound impact on urban life in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet relatively few
people took an active interest in the formulation of these
policies. In this book Marjaana Niemi examines the impact of
different political aims and pressures on 'scientific' health
policies through the analysis of public health programmes in two
case studies, one in Birmingham and the other in Gothenburg. By
examining early twentieth-century campaigns concerned with infant
welfare and the prevention of tuberculosis, the book provides
illuminating insights into the relationship between public health
and the regulation of urban life. Not only does the book analyse
the processes whereby different political aims became embedded in
these 'apolitical' health campaigns, but it also highlights the
important part that the campaigns played in urban politics and
governance. The political aims which public health campaigns
advanced are explored by comparing health policies in Britain and
Sweden, where officials were part of one public health community,
enjoying close links, attending the same conferences and
contributing to the same journals. The problems they dealt with
were often similar and in both countries health authorities claimed
scientific grounds for their programmes. Yet the policies they
pursued were often strikingly different. Through examination of two
different national approaches, the book does justice to the full
complexity of the policy-making process and illuminates the wide
range of factors that affected municipal policies.
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