Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Finding Disease in the Victorian City
"These Bastard Laws": Infectious Disease, Liberty, and Localism
Sequestration and Permeability: Isolation Hospitals
"Combustible Material": Classrooms, Contract Tracing, and
Following-Up
Disinfection, Domestic Space, and the Laboratory
Rules for Home Living: Tuberculosis and the Consumption of
Self-Help
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Intrusive Interventions is sure to find a receptive readership
among historians of medicine, urban historians, and historians of
late nineteenth- and early twentieth -century Britain more
generally. It is conceptually sophisticated, based on a substantial
body of primary research and engagingly written.
*JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY*
A valuable addition to the literature on the history of public
health, but also provides a critical window into the more personal
relationships between patients, doctors, public health officials
and legislators.
*FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY*
Although Mooney's work is framed by the civic-focused ideas that
underpinned public health in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, his groundbreaking focus is the materiality
and performative aspects of infectious-disease surveillance ...
Intrusive Interventions is an exciting and insightful contribution
to the history of public health and health care in Britain.
*BRITISH JOURNAL FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE*
What Mooney unravels in Intrusive Interventions is exciting and
insightful. . . . [T]his is the most important book on Victorian
public health since Worboys's Spreading Germs.
*MEDICAL HISTORY*
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