Health and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

H. Jones (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

1994
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-582-00459-7 (ISBN)

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Part of the "Themes in British Social History" series, this volume focuses on the 20th century. Topics covered include education, poverty, health, religion, leisure, crime and popular protest, and is designed for undergraduates, postgraduates and the general reader.

Few things tell us more of a nation's general well-being than the development of the life-expectancy of its citizens; the rising standards of health that they come to demand; and how evenly that improvement is shared throughout society. Helen Jones examines the record of twentieth-century Britain in these respects. She has much heartening progress to record - yet stark inequalities remain. Her book is thus both a review of, and contribution to, the current debates over gender, class and ethnic inequalities in standards of health in Britain today.

Helen Jones

1. Introduction: a Picture of health
2. The Race for health: Edwardian Britain
3. Fighting fit? 1914-1918
4. Poverty and the public health: the inter-war years
5. The people's health: 1939-45
6. Hidden from view: 1945-68
7. Open sores: the late 1960s to early 1990s
8. Inequalities in heath experience: the debate
Bibliographical note
Tables
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.1994
Reihe/Serie	Themes In British Social History
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 138 mm
Gewicht	601 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-582-00459-4 / 0582004594
ISBN-13	978-0-582-00459-7 / 9780582004597
Zustand	Neuware