Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick - Britain, 1800-1854

Klappentext A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain. Zusammenfassung By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government over urban filth but as a politically savvy choice to undermine the potential of a public medicine to provide a basis for radical criticism of laissez faire capitalism! this book opens the possibility for understanding health as a matter of justice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Health as Money; 2. A Political Medicine; 3. Prelude to the Sanitary Report, 1833-1838; 4. The Making of the Sanitary Report, 1839-1842; 5. The Sanitary Report; 6. Chadwick's Evidence: The Local Reports; 7. Sanitation Triumphant: The Health of Towns Commission, 1843-1845; 8. The Politics of Public Health, 1841-1848; 9. Selling Sanitation: the Inspectors and the Local Authorities, 1848-1854; 10. Lost in the Pipes; Conclusion; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hamlin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521102117
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10211-7
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine; Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book