How and why did ‘the rural’ emerge as a medico-political problem, and how was this issue addressed in different parts of Europe? This book investigates how rural environments became associated with particularised concepts of sickness and health, and how such views changed over time. Responses, in the form of successful and failed attempts to make a ‘new’ countryside, are analysed at local, regional and national levels – to some extent also involving international dimensions – covering sanitary and social campaigns, legislation and regulation, as well as the establishment and functioning of health services. The volume demonstrates the ambiguous position of rural society in European culture and politics. ‘The rural’ represented the good, clean, and unspoilt; yet it was perceived as backwards, uncivilised, and on the margins of ‘the modern’. This volume shows how medical science and medical practitioners contributed both to the ambiguity of ‘the rural’ and to the ‘civilisation’ of country-dwellers, and additionally demonstrates the strong political and cultural positions held by rural populations in some of the countries.
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the public health role of rural medical practitioners: Norfolk and Fife c. 1860-1914
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The rural health bureau: An unsuccessful attempt at public health surveillance in 1910s Spain
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Sanitary campaigns against trachoma in rural Spain
María Eugenia Galiana Sánchez, Ángela Cremades, Josep Bernabeu Mestre
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Poliomyelitis in rural and urban Spain: Epidemiological trends, social and scientific responses
María José Báguena, María Isabel Porras Gallo, Rosa Ballester Añón
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Serving the countryside in times of crisis: Norway 1912-1940
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Town and country: The stakes of infant and child health policy in France 1860-1940
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