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Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 4, 381-382, December 1999
© Oxford University Press 1999

Resource Reviews

Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick Britain 1800–1854

Christopher Hamlin, Cambridge University Press, 1998, 368 pp

Stephen Corbett

Environmental Health Unit NSW Health In 1998, the British Medical Journal commemorated the 150th anniversary of the first Great Public Health Act. Christopher Hamlin was among the authors who reflected upon the achievements and contemporary relevance of the legacy of Edwin Chadwick and his contemporaries. In this lively and readable book, Hamlin develops the idea that public health in Britain in the first half of the 19th century involved two transforming questions. Firstly, how broad public health was to be and how the ‘moral economy of medicine was to mesh with the political economy of industrial capitalism?’ The second is how . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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