Health and Wealth - Studies in History and Policy

The key to life and death in Britain lay less in medical science or rising living standards than in the changing electoral politics of the nations industrial cities. Class relations, political economy, ideology, religion, and the public health movement were all significant elements in this story. A late-Victorian flowering of vigorous municipal government was the precursor to central state activism in the twentieth century. Part III reflects on history to make direct contributions to contentious current policy issues. The persistence of social and health inequalities today in developed nations and debates over the new concept of social capital are addressed, along with the economic and health problems of todays less developed countries. The lessons of history are awkward and heterodox, indicating the importance of establishing state-sanctioned institutions to ensure social security, legal identity, and civic freedoms in advance of measures.

About the author

Simon Szreter teaches at the University of Cambridge

Product details

• Authors: Simon Szreter
• Publisher: University Of Rochester Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• No. of pages: 520
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 846 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education