Health, Civilization and the State

'An absolutely fascinating book. The issues raised are timely and unsettling, largely unaddressed as they are by contemporary public health professionals.' - British Medical Journal

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Dorothy Porter; Part 1 Population, health and pre-modernstates, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 2 Health and morality inthe ancient world, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 3 Pestilence and publicorder in medieval Europe, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 4 Enlightenment discourseand health, Dorothy Porter; Part 2 The right to health and themodern state, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 5 Social science and thequantitative analysis of health, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 6 Epidemics and socialdislocation in the nineteenth century, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 7 Public health and themodern state: France, Sweden and Germany, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 8 Public health andcentralization: the Victorian British state, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 9 The enforcement ofhealth and resistance, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 10 Localization and healthsalvation in the United States, Dorothy Porter; Part 3 The obligations of health inthe twentieth century, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 11 The quality ofpopulation and family welfare: human reproduction, eugenics and socialpolicy, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 12 Health and the rise ofthe classic welfare state, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 13 Conditionalcitizenship: the new political economy of health, Dorothy Porter; Part 4 Preparing for the twenty.first century, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 14 Being fit to live inthe twenty-first century: healthy bodies and somatic maps, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 15 Epilogue, Dorothy Porter;