Predisposing Causes and Public Health in Early Nineteenth-Century Medical Thought

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHRISTOPHER HAMLIN
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Predisposing Causes

Welfare and the State

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Thane
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
British State

The chapter examines development and change in the welfare role of the British state and the main influences upon it in the context of changing social, economic, and political conditions. It explores the Poor Law and its reform in the early nineteenth century and challenges to it later in the century; the growing role of the state in such fields as education, public health, and labour conditions through the nineteenth century; its more rapid growth through the twentieth century; and finally the challenges to state welfare from the 1980s. Throughout, the shifting but always significant relationship between the state and the voluntary sector in provision for welfare is described and discussed.

Political Ideology and Public Health in the Nineteenth Century

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Tesh
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Western World ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Personal Behavior ◽  
Epidemic Diseases ◽  
Disease Causality

A study of early-nineteenth-century disease prevention practices in the Western world reveals four competing theories about the causes of epidemic diseases: a contagion theory, a personal behavior theory, a supernatural theory, and an environmental theory. With the exception of the supernatural approach, these explanations for illness closely resemble the theories advanced today to account for chronic diseases. In both periods disease causality theories have been more than medical postulates; they have also implied political ideologies.

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