Medical police and the history of public health.
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In 1942, Henry Sigerist questioned the idea that "the German way in public health was to enforce health through the police while the English way consisted in acting through education and persuasion".2 Contrasts of this kind have, however, remained commonplace throughout the twentieth century.3 In the 1950s, George Rosen sought to reframe the history of public health in order to understand how it "reflected" its social and historical context. Despite critiques of Rosen's Whiggism, his work remains a source of current contrasts between public health and medical police. Rosen's analysis posited an inherent relationship between the idea of medical police and those of cameralism4 and mercantilism, particularly as developed in seventeenthand eighteenth-century Germany.' Treating cameralism and medical police as "superstructural" forms subordinate to the political and economic relations of the ancien regime, he concluded that medical police was essentially a centralized form of continental and despotic government. It was incompatible with the forms of liberal
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 46 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2002