| Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement Contributor(s): La Berge, Ann Elizabeth Fowle (Author), Rosenberg, Charles (Editor), Jones, Colin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521404061 ISBN-13: 9780521404068 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $138.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 362.109 |
| LCCN: 91036335 |
| Series: British Computer Society Conference |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.61 lbs) 398 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, and within the context of competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and statism. The dialectic between liberalism, whose leading exponent was Villerm , and statism, the approach of Parent-Duch telet, characterized the movement and was reflected in the tension between liberal and social medicine that permeated nineteenth-century French medical discourse. Professor La Berge also challenges the prevalent notion that the British were the leaders in the nineteenth-century public health movement and set the model for similar movements elsewhere. She argues that an active and influential French public health movement antedated the British and greatly influenced British public health leaders. |