Health and Wealth Studies in History and Policy Rochester Studies in Medical History Vol 6 1st Edition by Simon Szreter ISBN 978-1580462167 1580462162

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ISBN 10:  1580462162

ISBN 13: 978-1580462167

Author: Simon Szreter

Essays seeking to bring an historical perspective to bear on today’s national and international policy concerns and to present original historical research that challenges conventional assumptions and viewpoints.

Today’s complex policy problems cannot be understood by the social, medical, and policy sciences, alone. History is also required to interpret the present and to inform attempts to mould the future. The essays in this volume seekto bring an historical perspective to bear on today’s national and international policy concerns and to present original historical research, which challenges conventional assumptions and viewpoints.
In Health and Wealth theessays in Part I offer an historian’s reappraisal of several of the most influential ideas dealing with the relationships between health and economic development in the post-war international policy sciences, such as demographictransition theory; the McKeown thesis; and the population health approach.
Part II presents a distinctive interpretation of the course and causes of mortality change in Britain during the ‘long century’ of industrialisation,c.1780-1914. British history shows that rapid economic growth is a highly disruptive process, unleashing potentially deadly challenges. The key to life and death in Britain lay less in medical science or rising living standards than in the changing electoral politics of the nation’s industrial cities. Class relations, political economy, ideology, religion and the public health movement were all significant elements in this story. A late-Victorian flowering of vigorous municipal government was the precursor to central state activism in the twentieth-century.
Part III reflects on history to make direct contributions to contentious current policy issues. The persistence of social and health inequalities today in developed nations and debates over the new concept of social capital are addressed, along with the economic and health problems of today’s less developed countries. The lessons of history are awkward and heterodox, indicating the importance of establishing state-sanctioned institutions to ensure social security, legal identity and civic freedoms in advance of measures to stimulate and open these countries’ economies to global trade.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

Part I: History as Critique – Debating the McKeown Thesis and the Postwar Policy Consensus
2. The Population Health Approach in Historical Perspective
3. The Idea of Demographic Transition and the Study of Fertility Change: A Critical Intellectual History
4. The Importance of Social Intervention in Britain’s Mortality Decline c.1850–1914: A Reinterpretation of the Role of Public Health
5. Mortality in England in the Eighteenth and the Nineteenth Centuries

Part II: Historical Studies of the Response to the Public Health Challenges of Economic Growth in Nineteenth‑Century Britain
6. Urbanization, Mortality, and the Standard of Living Debate: New Estimates of the Expectation of Life at Birth in Nineteenth‑Century British Cities
7. Economic Growth, Disruption, Deprivation, Disease, and Death: On the Importance of the Politics of Public Health for Development
8. The G.R.O. and the Public Health Movement in Britain, 1837–1914
9. The Silent Revolution in Nineteenth‑Century Government: The Rise of Local Government Expertise

Part III: History and Policy – From the Past to the Future
10. Health, Class, Place, and Politics: Social Capital, Opting In and Opting Out of Collective Provision in Nineteenth‑Century and Twentieth‑Century Britain
11. Health by Association? Social Capital, Social Theory, and the Political Economy of Public Health
12. Public Health and Security in an Age of Globalizing Economic Growth: The Awkward Lessons of History

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