Health and Medicine in Rural Europe (1850-1945)

Health and Medicine in Rural Europe (1850-1945)
Author: Josep Lluís Barona Vilar
Publisher: Universitat de València
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9788437063348

La historiografía médica reciente es principalmente urbana. La salud en el medio rural ofrece nuevas perspectivas que incluyen los procesos de interacción entre salud, cultura y medicina en el marco comparado europeo. Health and Medicine in Rural Europe refleja el esfuerzo combinado de grupos de investigación de Noruega, Inglaterra y España. La primera parte del libro incluye seis capítulos que combinan un acercamiento global a “lo rural” en el contexto europeo con estudios regionales específicos. Analizan también las políticas sanitarias en la España rural, el sistema zemstvo en el norte de la Rusia europea o las diferentes percepciones entre poblaciones rurales y urbanas y su transformación en Noruega. La Conferencia Europea de Higiene Rural celebrada en Ginebra en 1931 y las repercusiones sobre la administración sanitaria española dan paso a una reflexión sobre las interacciones entre medicina y culturas locales en España, Noruega y la Rusia europea. La segunda parte se ocupa de la salud rural y la práctica médica: la labor de los médicos generales en los hospitales y servicios de salud de la región inglesa; la función de los médicos rurales en la sociedad valenciana y en la región de Baviera, o las estrategias de lucha contra las enfermedades infecciosas en la Valencia rural. Los dos capítulos siguientes están consagrados al paludismo en las granjas de East Anglia y a las campañas de desarrolladas en Alicante durante el primer tercio del siglo XX. La parte final se refiere a aspectos institucionales: la labor de la Acadèmia d’Higiene de Catalunya; las redes asistenciales en la Mallorca rural, los primeros hospitales infantiles en Inglaterra o la labor realizada por la Gota de Leche en Alicante.

Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800–2000

Medicine in the Remote and Rural North, 1800–2000
Author: J T H Connor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 131732269X

This volume of thirteen essays focuses on the health and treatment of the peoples of northern Europe and North America over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Health Policies in Interwar Europe

Health Policies in Interwar Europe
Author: Josep L. Barona
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351247875

Research into public health policies and expert instruction has been oriented traditionally in the national context. There is a rich historiography that analyses the development of health policies and systems in various European and American countries during the first decades of the twentieth century. What is often ignored, however, is the study of the great many connections and circulations of knowledge, people, technologies, artefacts and practices during that period between countries. This book redresses that balance.

The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment

The League of Nations and the Protection of the Environment
Author: Omer Aloni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108838197

This first study of the environmental challenges handled by the League of Nations pioneers new perspectives on legal and environmental history.

Franco's Internationalists

Franco's Internationalists
Author: David Brydan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 0198834594

Despite the repression, violence, and social hardship which characterised Spanish life in the 1940s and 1950s, the Franco regime sought to win popular support by promoting its apparent commitment to social justice. This study tells the story of the experts in public health, medicine, and social insurance sent to sell Franco's regime overseas.

Health and Development

Health and Development
Author: Iris Borowy
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2023-01-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 3111015580

Health and development require one another: there can be no development without a critical mass of people who are sufficiently healthy to do whatever it takes for development to occur, and people cannot be healthy without societal developments that enable standards of health to be maintained or improved. However, the ways in which health and development interact are complex and contested. This volume unites eleven case studies from nine countries in three continents and two international organizations since the late-nineteenth century. Collectively, they show how different actors have struggled to reconcile the sometimes contradictory nature of health and development policies, and the subordination of these policies to a range of political objectives.

Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834

Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834
Author: Steven King
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1526129027

At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; that the poor themselves were able to negotiate this medical welfare rather than simply being subject to it; and that being doctored and institutionalised became part of the norm for the sick poor by the 1820s, in a way that had not been the case in the 1750s. Exploring the lives and medical experiences of the poor largely in their own words, Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the so-called crisis of the Old Poor Law from the later eighteenth century. The sick poor became an insistent presence in the lives of officials and parishes and the (largely positive) way that communities responded to their dire needs must cause us to rethink the role and character of the poor law.

The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920–1945

The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920–1945
Author: Josep L Barona
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317316770

Based on extensive archival research, this study examines the role of the Rockefeller Foundation and the League of Nations in improving public health during the interwar period. Barona argues that the Foundation applied a model of business efficiency to its ideology of spreading good health, creating a revolution in public health practice.

The Impact of Hospitals, 300-2000

The Impact of Hospitals, 300-2000
Author: John Henderson
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2007
Genre: Hospitals
ISBN: 9783039110018

The first wide-ranging collection of articles on the history of hospitals in the Mediterranean, northern Europe, and the Americas for over 17 years. The contributions present a nuanced approach to the impact of hospitals on society over a very long time period and an exceptional geographical range.

Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930

Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930
Author: Deborah Brunton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2004-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719067396

Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930 provides readers with unrivaled access to a comprehensive range of sources on major themes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century medicine. The book covers issues such as the changing role of the hospital, disease, colonial and imperial medicine, women, war, the emergence of modern surgery, welfare and the state, and the growth of asylum. Extracts from contemporary writings vividly illustrate key aspects of medical thought and practice, while a selection of classic historical research and up-to-date work in the field gives a sense of our understanding of medical history. Introductions make the sources accessible to the student as well as the interested general reader.