Mission and method the early nineteenth-century French public health movement
In Mission and Method Ann La Berge traces the development of the French public health movement within the sociopolitical context of early nineteenth century France. Examining the community of hygienists that gathered on the Paris health council, La Berge shows how their competing ideologies - libera...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
1992.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge history of medicine. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39699535*spi |
| Sumario: | In Mission and Method Ann La Berge traces the development of the French public health movement within the sociopolitical context of early nineteenth century France. Examining the community of hygienists that gathered on the Paris health council, La Berge shows how their competing ideologies - liberalism, conservatism, socialism, statism - fathered a movement that inspired and informed similar movements elsewhere, especially in Britain. She shows how the dialectic between liberalism, whose leading exponent was Villerme, and statism, the approach of Parent-Duchatelet, characterized the movement and reflected the tension between liberal and social medicine that permeated nineteenth-century French medical discourse. Operating within the context of scientism, according to which any area of investigation could and should be made empirical and statistical, French public hygienists sought to create a scientific discipline of public hygiene. If their method was scientific, the mission behind the method was hygienism, which La Berge characterizes as a medical imperialism that aimed to medicalize and moralize the society in the name of public order and national security. Ultimately, the public health movement was an Establishment movement, operated within state-supported institutions, professionalized as a scientific discipline, and piloted by hygienists who realized their notions of public health through the administrative machinery and the monopoly of discourse in their possession. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780511529245 |
