Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick. Britain, 1800-1854, Hardback/***

By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government over urban filth but as a politically savvy choice to undermine the potential of a public medicine to provide a basis for radical criticism of laissez faire capitalism, this book opens the possibility for understanding health as a matter of justice. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Author(s): Christopher (University of Notre Dame, Indiana) Hamlin Illustration(s): 7 Halftones, unspecified Number of pages: 380 Collection: Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine Publication date: 1998 Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 31 Cover type: Hardback