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Health and wealth : studies in history and policy
- Title
- Health and wealth : studies in history and policy / Simon Szreter.
- Author
- Szreter, Simon.
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 506 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 448-492) and index.
- Contents
- The population health approach in historical perspective -- The idea of demographic transition and the study of fertility change: a critical intellectual history -- The importance of social intervention in Britain's mortality decline c.1850-1914: a reinterpretation of the role of public health -- Mortality in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Urbanization, mortality, and the standard of living debate: new estimates of the expectation of life at birth in nineteenth-century British cities -- Economic growth, disruption, deprivation, disease, and death: on the importance of the politics of public health for development --
- The G.R.O. and the public health movement in Britain, 1837-1914 -- The silent revolution in nineteenth-century government: the rise of local government expertise -- Health, class, place, and politics: social capital, opting in and opting out of collective provision in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Britain -- Health by association? social capital, social theory, and the political economy of public health -- Public health and security in an age of globalizing economic growth: the awkward lessons of history.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-12359
- ISBN
- 1580461980 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005018352
- OCLC
- 60776757
- Author
- Szreter, Simon.
- Title
- Health and wealth : studies in history and policy / Simon Szreter.
- Imprint
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2005.
- Series
- Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 448-492) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-12359