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100 1 Mooney, Graham,
245 10 Intrusive interventions :|bpublic health, domestic space,
and infectious disease surveillance in England, 1840-1914
/|cGraham Mooney.
264 1 Rochester, NY :|bUniversity of Rochester Press,|c2015.
300 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) :|bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
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490 1 Rochester studies in medical history
500 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04
Apr 2018).
520 The politics of public health in modern democracies
concerns the balance between rights and responsibilities.
This equilibrium of citizenship is under perpetual
negotiation, but it was particularly intense in mid-
nineteenth-century Britain when public health became
deeply embedded as a state practice. Using extensive
archival research, <i>Intrusive Interventions</i> examines
the contested realm ofVictorian liberal subjectivity
through an interconnected group of policies: infectious
disease reporting, domestic quarantine, mandatory removal
to isolation hospital, contact tracing, and the
disinfection of homes and belongings. These techniques of
infectious disease surveillance eventually became one of
the most powerful and controversial set of tools in modern
public health.<BR><BR> One of the crucial questions for
liberal democracies has been how the state relates to the
private family in shaping duties, responsibilities, rights,
and needs. <i>Intrusive Interventions</i> argues that
thegaze of public health was retrained onto everyday
behaviors and demonstrates that infectious disease
surveillance attempted to govern through the agency of
family and through the concept of domesticity. This fresh
interpretation of public health practice during the
Victorian and Edwardian periods complements studies that
have examined domestic visiting, the infant welfare
movement, child protection, and school welfare.<BR><BR>
Graham Mooney is an assistant professor at the Institute
of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University.
650 0 Communicable diseases|xHistory|zEngland|y19th century.
650 0 Epidemiology|xHistory|zEngland|z19th century.
650 0 Medicine, Preventive|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 Public health|zEngland.
830 0 Rochester studies in medical history.
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