Public Health as a Matter of Concern
Victorian England, 1834-1848
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338051 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Strand (0000-0002-6820-5358, Brandeis University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 399-423 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243918800575 |
| OpenAlex | W2891874656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Public health is currently evolving, expanding, and reinforcing itself as a governance project in which health authorities' concerns meet and blend with epidemiology and civil engineering. Rarely, however, are those concerns found worthy of examination, at least not to account for the multiplying involvements of public health, its ability to find political life in things, and its many translations. The shape of public health is dictated as much by its matters of concern as it is by biopolitical and brute matters of fact. This article presents a genealogy of public health in Victorian England between 1834 and 1848 in order to glimpse the matters of concern around which it stabilized. The political medicine that preceded public health holds the clue in its assertion of life as a form of worth, as prominent a criterion for the assessment of sociomaterial arrangements as profitability or efficiency. This article describes public health as an ensemble presence, a unique gathering, in which political will follows medical diagnosis, and life is worth at least as much as money
Assertion · Corporate governance · Economics · Management · Political science · Politics · Public health · Sociology · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Public Administration
Cholera, fever and English medicine, 1825-1865.
A history of public health.
The Social Determinants of Health
The Birth of the Clinic
Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick Britain 1800–1854
Predisposing Causes and Public Health in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Thought
Matters of care in technoscience
Fleck the Public Health Expert
Emerging Infectious Disease/Emerging forms of Biological Sovereignty
From Poverty to Perversity
Early Victorian Government, 1830-70
Ordinalization
Catastrophic Populations and the Fear of the Future
Getting to Sewers and Sanitation
Why Has Critique Run out of Steam? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |