Mission and Method: The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement

by Ann Elizabeth Fowler La Berge

Book Overview

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 Villerm , and statism, the approach of Parent-Duch telet, characterized the movement and was reflected in the tension between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521527015
• ISBN13: 9780521527019
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"