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This book is a groundbreaking study of the historical reasons for the divergence in public health policies adopted in Britain, France, Germany and Sweden, and the spectrum of responses to the threat of contagious diseases such as cholera, smallpox and syphilis. In particular the book examines the link between politics and prevention. Did the varying political regimes influence the styles of precaution adopted? Or was it, as Peter Baldwin argues, a matter of more basic differences between nations, above all their geographic placement in the epidemiological trajectory of contagion, that helped shape their responses and their basic assumptions about the respective claims of the sick and of society, and fundamental political decisions for and against different styles of statutory intervention? Thus the book seeks to use medical history to illuminate broader questions of the development of statutory intervention and the comparative and divergent evolution of the modern state in Europe.

National health services --- Communicable diseases --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Diseases --- Infection --- Epidemics --- Medicine, State --- National health care --- Nationalized health services --- Socialized medicine --- State medical care --- State medicine --- Medical care --- Medical policy --- Public health --- History --- Médecine d'Etat --- Maladies infectieuses --- Histoire --- History of Europe --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1920-1929 --- NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES -- 930.3 --- COMMUNICABLE DISEASES -- 930.3 --- 19TH CENTURY -- 930.3 --- Medicine [State ] --- Europe --- 19th century --- Arts and Humanities --- Maladies contagieuses --- Cholera --- Médecine publique --- Politique sanitaire --- Santé publique --- 19e siècle --- aspects politiques --- 20e siècle