Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick: Britain, 1800-1854

by Christopher Hamlin

Book Overview

The 1830s and 1840s are the formative years of modern public health in Britain, when the poor law bureaucrat Edwin Chadwick conceived his vision of public health through public works and began the campaign for the construction of the kinds of water and sewerage works that ultimately became the standard components of urban infrastructure throughout the developed world. This book first explores that vision and campaign against the backdrop of the great...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521102111
• ISBN13: 9780521102117
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"