Cultivating health : Los Angeles women and public health reform / Jennifer Lisa Koslow.

New Brunswick, N.J. ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2009], ©2009.

xi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Paid for by the public purse : public health nursing -- Public authority for a private program : housing reform -- Bovines, babies, and bacteriology : the problems of crafting milk reform -- Delivering the city's children: midwives and municipal maternity programs -- The challenge of constructing venereal disease programs.

Includes bibliographical references and index.