State’s Medical Experts in Local Practice: Provincial Doctors View of Themselves as Public Health Promoters: an Example from the Swedish Countryside, 1880–1920

摘要: This case study focus upon Swedish provincial doctors as practitioners in a sparsely populated medical district Sweden 1881-1920, and their positions state’s experts period when the first steps towards welfare state were taken. The question to be answered is how themselves looked possibilities promote public health countryside? shows that for sure identified representatives of state, science modernisation, they agreed own importance crusade bringing modern countryside. In practice, though, implementation influence seem have been limited – something well aware of. explanation probably lack confidence, result doctors’ tendency distance from simple, ignorant reactionary locals.