Health, civilization, and the state: a history of public health from ancient to modern times

Introduction: Changing definitions of the history of public health

pt. 1. Population, health and pre-modern states. 1. Health and morality in the ancient world. 2. Pestilence and public order in medieval Europe. 3. Enlightenment discourse and health

pt. 2. The right to health and the modern state. 4. Social science and the quantitative analysis of health. 5. Epidemics and social dislocation in the nineteenth century. 6. Public health and the modern state: France, Sweden and Germany. 7. Public health and centralization: the Victorian British state. 8. The enforcement of health and resistance. 9. Localization and health salvation in the United States

pt. 3. The obligations of health in the twentieth century.