Cultivating Health

"Jennifer Koslow expands our understanding of Progressive-era urban health reform in a careful and insightful narrative of female-led campaigns in Los Angeles, a multicultural city not always included in our narratives of the period. This is a story of state-making on the local level that is consistently interesting and well-written as well as a fresh model of public health reform in one city that should spur historians to look into these issues in other cities."

~Ruth Crocker, professor of history and director of the Women's Studies Program, Auburn Univers

"This complex study is one of the very best we have of Progressive-erapublic health. With genuine sensitivity, Jennifer Koslow helps usunderstand the deeply human motivations and consequences of the reformimpulse."

~Robert D. Johnston, author of The Radical Middle Class

"A fine book that will add to our understanding of the development of health care in this country and the role of women at this critical time in history."

~Bulletin of the History of Medicine

"An original and fine-grained study of the far-reaching activities and impact of an early generation of white affluent female reformers in a rapidly growing multicultural West Coast metropolis. This book adds rich detail and depth to our understanding of the history of Progressive-era Los Angeles, urban reform, public health, and women's volunteerism."

~American Historical Review

"This book is well researched and well written. It provides valuable insight into how health care in the U.S. came to be widely regarded as a public responsibility."

~Southern California Quarterly