Health and citizenship: Political cultures of health in modern Europe

Frank Huisman, Harry Oosterhuis

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Abstract

This collection of essays looks at issues of health and citizenship in Europe across two centuries. Contributors examine the extent to which the state can interfere with the private lives of its citizens, the role of individual responsibility and if any boundary occurs in terms of what the state can realistically provide.

Original languageEnglish
PublisherTaylor and Francis
Number of pages298
ISBN (Electronic)9781317319030
ISBN (Print)9781848934320
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2015

Keywords

  • Fish trades
  • Infant welfare centres
  • Irregular healers
  • Liberal citizenship
  • Lifestyle risk
  • Medical underwriting
  • Mental health care
  • Neo-republican citizenship
  • Oyster industry
  • Predictive medicine
  • Private life insurance
  • Public health experts
  • Sanitary reform
  • Sea fisheries committees
  • Social citizenship
  • Social democratic Citizenship
  • Social hygiene
  • Typhoid bacilli
  • Welfare state
  • Youth care

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