Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

Health, Civilization and the State: A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

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A History of Public Health. HBR's 10 Must Reads: Community and Public Health Nursing: Review "Dorothy Porter's latest contribution to public health history is an ambitious undertaking that builds upon her earlier and well-known work.

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Porter's historical overview and analysis constitute an argument about the role of biopower in relation to the state. Her use of evidence to make the argument is compelling and the scope of that evidence is monumental. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Health, Civilization and the State , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about Health, Civilization and the State.

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Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. May 14, Mike rated it it was amazing. Dorothy Porter presents here a sweeping, nuanced, and very informative history of Western—mainly British—public health. She focuses mainly on the 18th to 20th centuries and her examination of earlier times and also on American public health is lacking, but she nonetheless presents Britsih public health and the grandness of relationships in the British colonial arena between people, disease, health, and politics in an understandable way and, what is more, she adeptly relates actual public health Dorothy Porter presents here a sweeping, nuanced, and very informative history of Western—mainly British—public health.

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She focuses mainly on the 18th to 20th centuries and her examination of earlier times and also on American public health is lacking, but she nonetheless presents Britsih public health and the grandness of relationships in the British colonial arena between people, disease, health, and politics in an understandable way and, what is more, she adeptly relates actual public health actions to theory spanning from Max Weber to Michel Foucault.

For her depth of information on the British history and her ability to connect social theory with public health in an informed and useful way, I give this book five stars however it is not by far the only book a student of public health will require to survey the field's history. Jan 29, Dan rated it liked it Shelves: Definitely a useful book, albeit a tad dry at times.

Then again, it's basically written like a textbook. I think Porter is most at home in discussing the various actions by governments towards building welfare states; it seems to be her interest.

But the earlier chapters about public health going back to the plague and before are pretty useful too. Julian Polaris rated it really liked it Jul 30, Jason Smith rated it it was amazing Oct 14, Frederik Hansen rated it it was ok Aug 28, Simon rated it really liked it Dec 13, Peter rated it really liked it Feb 23, Robin Moon rated it it was amazing Jan 17, Alli rated it really liked it Jun 16, Lisa rated it really liked it Jul 25, Elle rated it liked it Sep 05, Jieun rated it really liked it Apr 09, Blythe Kersula rated it it was amazing Jun 13, Pingpongabyss marked it as to-read Jan 13, Karl added it Mar 04, Matthew added it Jul 09, Andre marked it as to-read Feb 19, Diana marked it as to-read Aug 06, Kelsey marked it as to-read Sep 18, Kallas marked it as to-read Sep 18, Danielle marked it as to-read Sep 18, Erika marked it as to-read Oct 23, Margarita marked it as to-read Mar 05, Hayley marked it as to-read Apr 02,

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