| Description |
xiii, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715 ; v. 6 |
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Rochester studies in medical history. 1526-2715 ; v. 6
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| 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: a reply to Sumit Guha -- 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 -- |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Public health -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Public health -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- History.
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Social medicine -- Great Britain -- History.
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Medical policy -- Great Britain -- History.
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Mortality -- Great Britain -- History.
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Public Health -- history.
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Health Policy -- history.
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History, 18th Century.
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History, 19th Century.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 |
| LC no. |
2005018352 |
| ISBN |
1580461980 hardcover alkaline paper |
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