| Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform None Edition Contributor(s): Koslow, Jennifer Lisa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813545285 ISBN-13: 9780813545288 Publisher: Rutgers University Press OUR PRICE: $55.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Public Health - Medical | Health Risk Assessment - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 362.104 |
| LCCN: 2008048061 |
| Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.05 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA - Cultural Region - Southern California - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: At the dawn of the Progressive Era, when America was experiencing an industrial boom, many working families often ate contaminated food, lived in decaying urban tenements, and had little access to medical care. In a city that demanded change, Los Angeles women, rather than city officials, championed the call to action. Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details women's impact on remaking health policy, despite the absence of government support. Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government. Koslow highlights women's home health care and urban policy-changing accomplishments and pays tribute to what would become the model for similar service-based systems in other American centers. |