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

Abstract

List of tables and illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Community, method, context 2. The methodology of public hygiene 3. The context of public hygiene: national public health policy 4. Institutionalization: the health councils 5. Investigation and moralization: occupational hygiene and industrialization 6. Investigation and practical reform: public health in Paris 7. Public health in Paris: investigation, salubrity, and social welfare 8. Public health and public health movements: comparison and assessment 9. Before Pasteur: hygienism and the French model of public health Epilogue Appendixes Bibliographical note Index.