Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
Christopher (University of Notre Dame, Indiana) Hamlin
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521102117
- ISBN-10
- 0521102111
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2009
- Publication date
- 2009-01-08
- Pages
- 380
- Dimensions
- 229x152x24
- Weight
- 578