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- ISBN 9780520290358
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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When and how did public health become modern? In Governing Systems, Tom Crook offers a fresh answer to this question through an examination of Victorian and Edwardian England, long considered one of the critical birthplaces of modern public health. This birth, Crook argues, should be located not in the rise of professional expertise or a centralized bureaucratic state but in the contested formation and functioning of multiple systems, both human and material, administrative and technological. Theoretically ambitious yet empirically grounded, Governing Systems will be of interest to historians of modern public health and modern Britain, as well as to anyone interested in the complex gestation of the governmental dimensions of modernity.
Tom Crook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University.
