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1 online resource (211 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Ser |
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Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Ser
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| Contents |
<P>Contents</P><I><P>List of figures </P><P>Acknowledgments </P><P>List of abbreviations </P><OL></I><B><P><LI>Introduction </LI><P></P></B><I><P>A laboratory of the present<BR>"Peckham" as a social generator of knowledge </P><P>Structure of the book </P></I><B><P><LI>From C3 to A1 -- reforming the working class family (1925-1931) </LI><P></P></B><I><P>On Queen's Road<BR>Pioneers<BR>Helping with self-help<BR>Biographical aspects<BR>Plans for expansion<BR>Responsibility as a biological function: the first book </P><P>Internal supremacy </P></I><B><P><LI>St Mary's Road, S.E. 15 -- new premises, initial routines(1931-1935) </LI><P></P></B><I><P>Observation platforms and niches for congregation </P><P>Success stories </P></I><B><P><LI>"Living Structure of Society" -- the magnum opus and its scientific context </LI><P></P></B><I><P>The social environment as growth medium</P><P>The ideal life<BR>Culture and cultivation<BR>Interwar holisms</P><P>Eugenics, evolution and community </P></I><B><P><LI>Looking through the bioscope -- research and social interaction in the prewar centre (1935-1939) </LI><P></P></B><I><P>Data collection<BR>Chaos and order<BR>Mary Langman's recollections</P><P>Revisions: "socialized science"</P><P>Genius and autocrat<BR>The biologist as the summit of creation </P></I><B><P><LI>Interim findings </LI><P></P><P> </P><P><LI>The centre in photographs -- visual stimulation and participant observation </LI><P></P></B><I><P>Holistic perspectives and visual contagions</P><P>Moving images: </I>The Centre<BR><I>A winter evening </P></I><B><P><LI>Guinea pigsThe members between participation and social control</LI><P></P></B><I><P>Members' memoirs</P><P>"Bouquets & Brickbats"</P><P>An experiment in education </P></I><B><P><LI>Missed opportunities -- the centre and the welfare state (1939-1949)</LI><P></P></B><I><P>War, agriculture and family</P><P>"Physician, heal thyself"<BR>Reviews and an enforced reopening</P><P>Visitors and lecture tours</P><P>"Peckham" in the world's press </P></I><B><P><LI>"The Passing of Peckham" (1949-1959)</LI><P></P></B><I><P>Criticisms from within and without</P><P>The directors' fall from power<BR>The money trail<BR>From guinea pigs to citizens' group</P><P>Proof of the pudding </P></I><B><P><LI>"Peckham" after the Pioneer Health Centre and the changing discourse of health (1959)</LI><P></P></B><I><P>(Post- )modernization<BR>From social engineer to social entrepreneur </P></I><B><P><LI>Preliminary conclusion: the Pioneer Health Centre as liberal missing link</LI><P></P><P><LI>The promise of Peckham. Hidden legacies </LI><P></P></B><I><P>Anarchist appropriations<BR>The Peckham experiment as seen by city planners and architects</P><P>Brave new worlds<BR>A "strange laboratory"<BR>Northfield, Hawkspur & Hawthorne<BR>Experiments in self-organization</P><P>Therapeutic experiments</P><P>The experimental animal</P></I><P></P><B><P><LI>Epilogue </LI><P></P></OL></B><P><EM>References</EM></P><P><EM>Archives </EM></P> |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351757768 |
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1351757768 |
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9781351757744 |
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1351757741 |
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9781351757737 |
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1351757733 |
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9781315193328 |
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1315193329 |
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