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Title Health and citizenship : political cultures of health in modern Europe / edited by Frank Huisman and Harry Oosterhuis
Published London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2014

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Series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; no. 18
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; no. 18.
Contents Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; The Politics of Health and Citizenship; Part I: Liberal Citizenship and Public Health; 1. Before l'État-Providence; 2. An Oyster Odyssey; 3. Monopoly or Freedom of Healing?; 4. Ambivalences of Liberal Health Policy; Part II: Social Citizenship; 5. The Right to Health and Social Citizneship in Germany, 1848-1918; 6. From Tobacco in the War to the War on Tobacco; 7. Mental Health and Civic Virtue; Part III: Neo-Republican Citizenship; 8. Neo-Republican Citizenship and thr British National Health Service; 9. Struggling with Science and Democracy
10. Underwriting CitizenshipNotes; Index
Summary This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 16, 2013)
Subject Medical policy -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Medical policy -- Europe -- History -- 21st century
Public health -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
Public health -- Europe -- History -- 21st century
Health Policy -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Public Health -- history
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Medical policy
Public health
Health and Wellbeing.
SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631
Europe
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Huisman, Frank, editor.
Oosterhuis, Harry, editor.
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