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

✍ Scribed by George Davey Smith (editor); Daniel Dorling (editor); Mary Shaw (editor)

Publisher: Policy Press
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 462
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 extracts from classic texts on the subject of poverty, inequality and health in Britain. For the first time, these key resources are presented in a single volume. Each extract is accompanied by information about the author, and an introduction by the editors draws together themes of change and continuity over two hundred years. Some extracts present empirical evidence of the relationship of poverty and health, while others describe the gritty reality of the everyday struggles of the poor. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, academics and policy makers working in a range of disciplines: the social sciences, historical studies and health. It will also be of interest to all those concerned with tackling health inequalities and social justice generally. Studies in poverty, inequality and social exclusion series Series Editor: David Gordon, Director, Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research. Poverty, inequality and social exclusion remain the most fundamental problems that humanity faces in the 21st century. This exciting series, published in association with the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol, aims to make cutting-edge poverty related research more widely available. For other titles in this series, please follow the series link from the main catalogue page.

✦ Table of Contents

Poverty, inequality and healthin Britain: 1800-2000
Contents
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Sources and acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Poverty, politics and progress
Poverty, inequality and health 1800-2000
Poverty – relative or absolute?
Poverty, fecklessness or ignorance?
Charity, welfare or self-reform?
Does poverty cause ill-health or does ill-health cause poverty?
Exporting misery?
Poverty, inequality and health at the end of the 20th century
References
Further reading
Timeline
1. Thomas Clarkson, 1760-1846
2. Thomas Malthus, 1766-1834
3. Factory Inquiry Commission, 1833
4. William Farr, 1807-83
5. Edwin Chadwick, 1800-90
6. Friedrich Engels, 1820-95
7. Henry Mayhew, 1812-87
8. Karl Marx, 1818-83
9. Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, 1871-1954
10. Charles Booth, 1840-1916
11. Maud Pember Reeves, 1865-1953
12. Robert Tressell, 1870-1911
13. Edgar L. Collis, 1870-1957 and Major Greenwood, 1880-1949
14. Frank W. White (dates unknown)
15. George C.M. M’Gonigle (1888-1939) and J. Kirby (dates unknown)
16. John Boyd Orr, 1880-1971
17. Wal Hannington (1896-1966)
18. Margery Spring Rice, 1887-1970
19. William Beveridge, 1879-1963
20. Richard Titmuss, 1907-73
21. J.N. Morris, 1910-
22. John Hewetson, 1913-90
23. Aneurin Bevan, 1897-1960
24. Brian Abel-Smith, 1926-96 and Peter Townsend, 1928-
25. Robert Roberts, 1905-74
26. Julian Tudor Hart, 1927-
27. Inequalities in health: Report of a Research Working Group chaired by Sir Douglas Black (The Black Report) 1980
28. Independent Inquiry into Inequalities in Health (The Acheson Report) 1998
Index
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