History 138:  Science in the U.S.

Class 24 (10/18) 
Sanitation, hygiene, and imperialism
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Assignment "State Responsibility for Public Health: Selected Massachusetts Documents," in Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz, Public Health and the State: Changing Views in Massachusetts, 1842-1936 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), 204-208.

  What did "public health" mean to the authors of these reports?
  What did it have to do with government? What justified government involvement? What was the government to actually do?
  What about these documents strikes you as modern, what strange or time-bound? 
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