When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureacratic state, but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological.
Theoretically ambitious but empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity.
| ISBN: | 9780520290341 |
| Publication date: | 29th July 2016 |
| Author: | Tom Crook |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 408 pages |
| Series: | The Berkeley Series in British Studies |
| Genres: |
European history |
When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health.
Governing Systems features in the following genres: European history
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Governing Systems was written by Tom Crook and published by University of California Press
Governing Systems has 408 pages
Yes it is part of The Berkeley Series in British Studies series