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.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Szreter
• Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• No. of pages: 506
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 218 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 699 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in Medical H; Rochester Studies in Medical H
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General