Laatste Versie Making a New Countryside: Health Policies and Practices in European History ca. 1860-1950 – Astri Andresen (Editor), Josep Lluis Barona Vilar (Editor), Steven Cherry (Editor)

How and why did ’the rural’ emerge as a medico-political problem, and how was this issue addressed in different parts of Europe? This book investigates how rural environments became associated with particularised concepts of sickness and health, and how such views changed over time. Responses, in the form of successful and failed attempts to make a ‘new’ countryside, are analysed at local, regional and national levels – to some extent also involving international dimensions – covering sanitary and social ca…