Jim Harris

Children's Health and Urban Ecology in England, 1885-1919

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes public health efforts to reduce infant mortality and improve children's health in three large English cities: Birmingham, Liverpool, and Manchester.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781648251016
• ISBN-10: 1648251013
• Artikelnr.: 73490327

Autorenporträt

Jim Harris

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Cantlie's Crisis:
Public Health and the "Urban Penalty" 1. A Tale of Three Cities: Ecology
and Demography 2. Flies and Feces: Death from Diarrhea 3. On Matters of
Milk and Motherhood: Promoting Public Health in the Private Sphere 4.
Cantlie's Crisis Revisited: From the South African War to 1904 5. Expanding
Children's Health: Schools as Sites of Public Health 6. New Directions for
Children's Health: The First World War and Its Aftermath Conclusion: The
Birth of the Ministry of Health Bibliography Index