Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine, 1885 1935

A study of Newsholme's role in the transformation of the British public health system.

Klappentext
A study of Newsholme"s role in the transformation of the British public health system.

Zusammenfassung
This book examines the transformation of the British public health system, during the years 18851935. Particular attention is drawn to Newsholme's role in constructing a highly successful local health programme, his tenure at the Local Government Board, his post-retirement studies of international health systems, and his statistical and epidemiological studies.

Inhalt
Preface; Part I. The Medical Officer of Health and the Local Sanitary Authority: 1. The new M. O. H. and his town; 2. Fact, theory, and the epidemic milieu; 3. The urban environment and the M. O. H.'s authority; 4. The municipal hospital and the isolation of acute infectious diseases; 5. The epidemiology of infected food and the limits of sanitary jurisdiction; 6. Tuberculosis: public policy and epidemiology; Part II. Newsholme at the Local Government Board: 7. Poverty, fitness, and the poor law; 8. The Local Government Board and the nation's health policy; 9. Launching a national tuberculosis program; 10. The Great War and the public health enterprise; 11. Infant and maternal mortality, interdepartmental conflict, and Newsholme supplanted; Part III. The Old World and the New: Newsholme as Elder Statesman: 12. Newsholme's transatlantic retirement; 13. Assessments of a career.

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