1st Edition

The Peckham Experiment A study of the living structure of society

By Innes H. Pearse, Lucy H. Crocker Copyright 2006
344 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2006. This volume looks at the Peckham Health Centre Experiment which over five years, the health-parenthood, the family and the home was the subject. The experiment needed time for the families to congregate and to function, and time for the scientist to understand what he saw. This book is evidence of how greatly time was needed and the observations made.

1. Living things

2. Man in the making

3. Basic Technique

4. The health centre

5. Health overhaul

6. Findings of overhaul

7. New member-families

8. The family grows

9. Infancy

10. School days

11. Growing up

12. Courship and mating

13. The birth of a family

14. Social poverty

15. Social sufficiency

16. A community grows

Biography

Innes H. Pearse, Lucy H. Crocker