Poverty, inequality and health in Britain: 1800-2000 : : A reader /

Poverty, inequality and health in Britain: 1800-2000 : : A reader / / ed. by George Davey Smith, Daniel Dorling, Mary Shaw.

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Inequalities in health, in terms of both empirical evidence and policies to tackle their reduction, are currently high on the research and political agendas. This reader provides two centuries of historical context to the current debate. Poverty, inequality and health in Britain: 1800-2000 presents...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Davey Smith, George,
Dorling, Daniel,
Shaw, Mary,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion
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Physical Description:1 online resource (462 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Sources and acknowledgements
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Further reading
  • Timeline
  • Clarkson, T. (1788) An essay on the impolicy of the African slave trade
  • Malthus, T. (1798, 1985) An essay on the principle of population
  • Factory Inquiry Commission Report (1833)
  • Farr, W. (1837, 1885, 1975) Vital statistics: A memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr
  • Chadwick, E. (1842, 1965) Report on the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Gt Britain
  • Engels, F. (1845, 1987) The condition of the working class in England
  • Mayhew, H. (1851-52) London labour and the London poor
  • Marx, K. (1864, 1992) Inaugural address of the International Working Men’s Association
  • Rowntree, B.S (1901, 1971) Poverty: A study of town life
  • Booth, C. (1902-3, 1967) On the city: Physical pattern and social structure
  • Pember Reeves, M.S. (1913, 1988) Round about a pound a week
  • Tressell, R. (1914, 1955) The ragged trousered philanthropists
  • Collis, E.L. and Greenwood, M. (1921) The health of the industrial worker
  • White, F.W. (1928) ‘Natural and social selection: a ‘Blue-Book’ analysis’
  • M’Gonigle, G.C.M. and Kirby, J. (1936) Poverty and public health
  • Boyd Orr, J. (1936, 1937) Food, health and income
  • Hannington, W. (1937) The problem of distressed areas
  • Spring Rice, M. (1939) Working-class wives: Their health and conditions
  • Beveridge, W. (1942) Social Insurance and Allied Services (The Beveridge Report)
  • Titmuss, R. (1943) Birth, poverty and wealth
  • Morris, J.N. (1944) Health
  • Hewetson, J. (1946) Ill-health, poverty and the state
  • Bevan, A. (1947) In place of fear
  • Abel-Smith, B. and Townsend, P. (1965) The poor and the poorest
  • Roberts, R. (1971) The classic slum: Salford life in the first quarter of the century
  • Tudor Hart, J. (1971) ‘The inverse care law’
  • Inequalities in health: Report of a Research Working Group chaired by Sir Douglas Black (The Black report) (1980)
  • Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (The Acheson Report) (1998)
  • Index

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