What are the origins of Greek public health? Where does it draw its standards from, what are its characteristics, and how is it administratively organized? And what does "health police" mean?

The volume traces the roots of Greece's health system, when it was controlled by the police, emphasizing the importance of the Otto period for subsequent developments in public health and the police. Disinfection facilities and quarantines, hygiene measures and control of "wandering populations", health economics, housing interventions, public doctors and municipal health, theories of preventive medicine and epidemics are subjects of analysis in the book that highlights the wealth of the field of medical history.

At the same time, the work emphasizes the value of this field for understanding a fundamental question of Greek historiography: what is the state and how is its biological basis formed?