{"product_id":"governing-systems-9780520290358","title":"Governing Systems","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen and how did public health become modern? This book 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The value of the book lies in its impressive command of detail.\"  * Journal of Modern History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Crook has done much... [his] fine book gives me hope that historians will come back to (or, more properly, discover for the first time) a kind of research immensely important to the understanding of the present and the recent past, and long neglected.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Reviews in History *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book should inspire a good debate in the urban history and the public health subfield over Crook’s argument for a revolutionary discourse of systems.\" * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Crook presents a sophisticated new interpretation of the English route to modernity... this is a very stimulating book that takes a series of traditional urban history debates and casts them in a very different light, both renaming and re-thinking many of the old problems.\" * Social History of Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e\"Tom Crook has produced something of a tour de force, finding an original take on a subject already much traversed by accomplished scholars such as Anne Hardy and Christopher Hamlin. The result is a pleasure to read: the writing lyrical and lucid, and the text moving easily between theoretical frames and rich empirical exposition.\" * Cultural and Social History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating proposal of how to study technological systems in the nineteenth century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. In Search of Hygeia: Systems, Modernity, and Public Health\u003cbr\u003e 2. A Perfect Chaos: Centralization and the Struggle for National System\u003cbr\u003e 3. Numbers, Norms, and Opinions: Death and the Measurement of Progress\u003cbr\u003e 4. Officialism: The Art and Practice of Sanitary Inspection\u003cbr\u003e 5. Matter in Its Right Place: Technology and the Building of Waste Disposal Systems\u003cbr\u003e 6. Stamping Out: Logistics, Risk, and Infectious Diseases\u003cbr\u003e 7. Personal Hygiene: Cleanliness, Class, and the Habitual Self\u003cbr\u003e 8. Conclusion: Systems, Variations, Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402885996887,"sku":"9780520290358","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520290358.jpg?v=1730481772","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/governing-systems-9780520290358","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}