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Historical Bibliography Updated: August 5, 2021

English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.

Publication Details

London: Cassell & Co., 1890 CE.

Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the regulation of unadulterated food and drugs" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state, and the ethics of political medical practice [2007]).  

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#1650
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/2163
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLenglish-sanitary-institutions-reviewed-in-their-course-of-development-and-in-some-of-their-political-and-social-relations

Geographic Context

Publication place: London