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Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Paperback, New Ed)
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Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830-1930 (Paperback, New Ed)
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This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for
the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain,
France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the
threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and
syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics
and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence the
styles of precaution adopted? Or was it, as Peter Baldwin argues, a
matter of more basic differences between nations, above all their
geographic placement in the epidemiological trajectory of
contagion, that helped shape their responses and their basic
assumptions about the respective claims of the sick and of society,
and fundamental political decisions for and against different
styles of statutory intervention? Thus the book seeks to use
medical history to illuminate broader questions of the development
of statutory intervention and the comparative and divergent
evolution of the modern state in Europe.
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