Description
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 Villerme, and statism, the approach of Parent-Duchatelet, characterized the movement and was reflected in the tension between liberal and social medicine that permeated nineteenth-century French medical discourse. Professor La Berge also challenges the prevalent notion that the British were the leaders in the nineteenth-century public health movement and set the model for similar movements elsewhere. She argues that an active and influential French public health movement antedated the British and greatly influenced British public health leaders.
Chapter
The community of hygienists
The mission of the hygienists
Chapter 2 The methodology of public hygiene
Parent-Duchâtelet and the scientific discipline of public hygiene
Statistics and public health
L. R. Villermé and public health statistics
Official statistical publications
Chapter 3 The context of public hygiene: National public health policy
The Royal Academy of Medicine and public health
Sanitary policy and sanitary administration
Theories of disease causation and the public health movement
Health care policies and programs
II Carrying out the mission: Institutionalization, investigation, moralization, and practical reform
Chapter 4 Institutionalization: The health councils
The Parisian public health administration: The prefecture of police and the Paris health council
Provincial health councils
The health council as a nationwide program
Chapter 5 Investigation and moralization: Occupational hygiene and industrialization
Industrialization and the condition of the working classes
Public hygienists and the investigative tradition
Investigation and moralization
Chapter 6 Investigation and practical reform: Public health in Paris
The hygienists and their "laboratory": Cholera in Paris
Parent-Duchâtelet: Hygienist of Paris
Assainissement, or sanitary reform
Water supply and sanitary reform
Cesspools and sanitary reform
Garbage disposal and public latrines
From sanitary reform to sanitary revolution: The first phase, 1850s
Sanitary revolution: The intermediate and final phases, 1870s
Conclusion: Sanitary reform and sanitary revolution
Chapter 7 Public health in Paris: Investigation, salubrity, and social welfare
The salubrity of private dwellings
The salubrity of public establishments
Public bathing establishments
Food and drink establishments and the safety of food
Prostitution as an urban health problem
III Public health before Pasteur
Chapter 8 Public health and public health movements: Comparison and assessment
Public health in the early nineteenth century
Channel crossing: Chad wick and the French hygienists
Physicians, the medical profession, and public health
The British and French movements compared and assessed
The French movement assessed
Chapter 9 Before Pasteur: Hygienism and the French model of public health
APPENDIX 1: EXTENT OF INDUSTRIALIZATION: WORKING-CLASS POPULATION
APPENDIX 2: COMMISSION CENTRALE SANITAIRE AND CONSEIL SUPÉRIEUR DE SANTÉ
APPENDIX 3: MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL SECTION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE IN 1828
APPENDIX 4: PREFECTS OF POLICE, 1815-1848
APPENDIX 5: ORGANIZATION OF THE PREFECTURE OF POLICE: THE ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH, 1846
APPENDIX 6: COMPARISON OF BUDGETS OF THE PREFECTURE OF POLICE FOR THE YEARS 1831 AND 1847, AND MONEY SPENT FOR VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
APPENDIX 7: PUBLIC HEALTH TERMINOLOGY
APPENDIX 8: MEMBERS OF THE PARIS HEALTH COUNCIL 1852
APPENDIX 9: FIGURES ON BATHING
APPENDIX 10: ETABLISSEMENT HYGIÉNIQUE DES NÉOTHERMES PRIX DES BAINS ET DOUCHES
APPENDIX 11: EDITORS OF THE ANNALES D'HYGIÉNE PUBLIQUE
APPENDIX 12: PHYSICIAN-HYGIENISTS OF LYON: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
Mission and Method
：The Early Nineteenth-Century French Public Health Movement
( Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine )
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