Health, civilization, and the state : a history of public health from ancient to modern times / Dorothy Porter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Changing definitions of the history of public health -- Pt. 1. Population, health and pre-modern states -- 1. Health and morality in the ancient world -- 2. Pestilence and public order in medieval Europe -- 3. Enlightenment discourse and health -- Pt. 2. The right to health and the modern state -- 4. Social science and the quantitative analysis of health -- 5. Epidemics and social dislocation in the nineteenth century -- 6. Public health and the modern state: France, Sweden and Germany -- 7. Public health and centralization: the Victorian British state -- 8. The enforcement of health and resistance -- 9. Localization and health salvation in the United States -- Pt. 3. The obligations of health in the twentieth century -- 10. The quality of population and family welfare: human reproduction, eugenics and social policy -- 11. Health and the rise of the classic welfare state -- 12. Conditional citizenship: the new political economy of health -- Pt. 4. Preparing for the twenty-first century -- 13. Being fit to live in the twenty-first century: healthy bodies and somatic maps -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.

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