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