1st Edition

Health and Society in Twentieth Century Britain

By Helen Jones Copyright 1994
214 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Helen Jones