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, ... Read morebut 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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