Governing Systems: Modernity and the Making of Public Health in England, 1830–1910
- Submitting institution
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Oxford Brookes University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 185749858
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- University of California Press
- ISBN
- 9780520290341
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is the first major study of Victorian and Edwardian public health for a generation. Spanning almost 400 pages, it covers the core areas of statecraft and local governance – centre-local relations; vital statistics; sewerage systems and waste disposal; control of infectious diseases; personal hygiene – and reappraises what made it modern. It presents a novel argument regarding the scale and complexity of modern government. Arguing that we should think of governing not as a function or responsibility of ‘the state’, but as practice located in multiple and heterogeneous administrative and technological systems. It is both theoretically and empirically ambitious.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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