Szreter Health and Wealth

Studies in History and Policy
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-58046-646-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 6, 520 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in Medical History

Essays seeking to bring an historical perspective to bear on today's national and international policy concerns and to present original historical research that challenges conventional assumptions and viewpoints.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Szreter, Simon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
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

Über Autor(innen)

Szreter Simon:
SIMON SZRETER is Professor of History and Public Policy as well as a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, UK.