Astri Andresen Josep L. Barona Steven Cherry (eds.) Making a New Countryside Health Policies and Practices in European History ca.1860–1950, PETER LANG Internationaler Verlag
CONTENTS
List of contributors ………………………………………………………… 9
Astri Andresen, Josep L. Barona and Steven Cherry: Introduction. ‘Rural
health’ as a European historical issue ……………………………………… 13
Paola M. Melis and Lucia Pozzi: Trachoma, health conditions and social
change in Sardinia …………………………………………………………. 27
Steven Cherry: The public health role of rural medical practitioners:
Norfolk and Fife c. 1860-1914 …………………………………………….. 51
Josep L. Barona: Sanitary reforms and rural health policies in Republican
Spain ……………………………………………………………………..… 73
Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña: The Rural Health Bureau: an unsuccessful
attempt at public health surveillance in 1910s Spain ……………………… 89
Maria Eugenia Galiana, Ângela Cremades and Josep Bernabeu-Mestre:
Sanitary campaigns against trachoma in rural Spain 103
María José Báguena, María Isabel Porras and Rosa Ballester: Poliomyelitis
in rural and urban Spain: epidemiological trends, social and scientific
responses …………………………………………………………………... 115
Ximo Guillem-Llobat: Food safety, the rural/urban dichotomy and
Valencian society 1850-1930 ……………………………………………… 135
Catherine Rollet: Town and country: the stakes of infant and child health
policy in France 1860-1940 ………………………………………………... 149
Astri Andresen and Teemu Ryymin: Serving the countryside in times of
crisis: Norway 1912-1940 ……………………………………….………… 171
Tore Grønlie: General hospital services for rural and peripheral areas of
Norway 1920-1950 …………………...……………………………………. 185
Select bibliography ………………………………………………………… 103
List of contributors ………………………………………………………… 9
Astri Andresen, Josep L. Barona and Steven Cherry: Introduction. ‘Rural
health’ as a European historical issue ……………………………………… 13
Paola M. Melis and Lucia Pozzi: Trachoma, health conditions and social
change in Sardinia …………………………………………………………. 27
Steven Cherry: The public health role of rural medical practitioners:
Norfolk and Fife c. 1860-1914 …………………………………………….. 51
Josep L. Barona: Sanitary reforms and rural health policies in Republican
Spain ……………………………………………………………………..… 73
Esteban Rodríguez-Ocaña: The Rural Health Bureau: an unsuccessful
attempt at public health surveillance in 1910s Spain ……………………… 89
Maria Eugenia Galiana, Ângela Cremades and Josep Bernabeu-Mestre:
Sanitary campaigns against trachoma in rural Spain 103
María José Báguena, María Isabel Porras and Rosa Ballester: Poliomyelitis
in rural and urban Spain: epidemiological trends, social and scientific
responses …………………………………………………………………... 115
Ximo Guillem-Llobat: Food safety, the rural/urban dichotomy and
Valencian society 1850-1930 ……………………………………………… 135
Catherine Rollet: Town and country: the stakes of infant and child health
policy in France 1860-1940 ………………………………………………... 149
Astri Andresen and Teemu Ryymin: Serving the countryside in times of
crisis: Norway 1912-1940 ……………………………………….………… 171
Tore Grønlie: General hospital services for rural and peripheral areas of
Norway 1920-1950 …………………...……………………………………. 185
Select bibliography ………………………………………………………… 103