Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521527019)

In Mission and Method Ann La Berge shows how the French public health movement developed within the socio-political context of the Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy, and within the context of competing ideologies of liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and statism. The dialectic between liberalism, whose leading exponent was Villermé, and statism, the approach of Parent-Duchâtelet, characterized the movement and was reflected in the tension between liberal and social medicine that permeated nineteenth-century French medical discourse. Professor La Berge also challenges the prevalent notion that the British were the leaders in the nineteenth-century public health movement and set the model for similar movements elsewhere. She argues that an active and influential French public health movement antedated the British and greatly influenced British public health leaders.

Author: Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge,La Berge Ann Elizabeth Fowler
ISBN-10: 0521527015
ISBN-13: 9780521527019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2002
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.10w x 1.03d