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Dissertation Information for Jennifer Lisa Koslow

NAME:
- Jennifer Lisa Koslow

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (2001)

ADVISORS:
- Janice L. Reiff

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Valerie Matsumoto
- Emily Abel
- Robert G. Frank

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Eden's underbelly: Female reformers and public health in Los Angeles, 1889--1932

Abstract: By tracing women's participation in developing Los Angeles' public health infrastructure over a forty-year period, from the formation of a permanent municipal board of health in 1889 to the start of the New Deal in 1932, this dissertation investigates the ways in which women stitched together the disparate strands of progressive reform, blurred the boundaries between individual and state responsibility for public health, and helped to lay an institutional foundation for the modern city. In attempting to mitigate the dangers of turn-of-the-century city life, women across the nation shaped the urban environment. At the end of the nineteenth century, the rapidly growing city of Los Angeles experienced a series of public health crises including contaminated food, unhealthy living conditions, and a lack of health care facilities. In response to these events, middle-class women in Los Angeles created private health programs, which they later integrated into the city government. However, these female reformers found that their vision of public health was compromised and their influence curtailed when the city government assumed these new responsibilities. I specifically analyze campaigns for safe milk, better housing, public health nursing, obstetrical care, and the eradication of contagious diseases to understand the pivotal role that private citizens, particularly women, played in shaping public health policy. The research that served as the basis of my dissertation--institutional reports, newspapers, court records, census data, city directories, and manuscript collections--facilitated my examination of how women came to define specific issues as public health concerns and their success and failure at capturing the public's support. My study demonstrates how urban space and theories of disease inspired women in Los Angeles to create public health programs and, in turn, how these programs shaped the development of the city.

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