| Description |
xi, 204 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Critical issues in health and medicine |
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Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Paid for by the public purse : public health nursing -- Public authority for a private program : housing reform -- Bovines, babies, and bacteriology : the problems of crafting milk reform -- Delivering the city's children: midwives and municipal maternity programs -- The challenge of constructing venereal disease programs. |
| Summary |
"Cultivating Health, an interdisciplinary chronicle, details the impact women had on remaking health policy in Progressive-era Los Angeles, despite the absence of government support. In a city that demanded change, women rather than city officials championed the call to action." "Combining primary source and municipal archival research with comfortable prose, Jennifer Lisa Koslow explores community nursing, housing reform, milk sanitation, childbirth, and the campaign against venereal disease in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Los Angeles. She demonstrates how women implemented health care reform and civic programs while laying the groundwork for a successful transition of responsibility back to government."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
Health care reform -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century.
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Women health reformers -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 19th century.
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Public Health -- history -- Los Angeles. |
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Maternal Health Services -- history -- Los Angeles. |
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Public Health Nursing -- history -- Los Angeles. |
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Sanitation -- history -- Los Angeles. |
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Women -- history -- Los Angeles. |
| ISBN |
9780813545288 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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0813545285 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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