The AS/A2 History series that everyone's talking about!
Poverty and Public Health 1815-1948 is the ideal book for students studying the growth of the state's role in providing for the health of the people in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Contents Listing
AS SECTION: NARRATIVE AND EXPLANATION Poverty and the Poor Law, 1815-1914 1 Poverty and the poor: the nature of the problem 2 How effective was the old Poor Law? 3 What were the pressures that brought about change? 4 How was the Poor Law Amendment Act implemented 1834-47? 5 Workhouses: pauper palaces or bastilles? 6 How did the Poor Law develop between 1847 and 1900? 7 Liberal social and welfare reforms, 1906-14: a fresh attack on poverty?
AS Assessment: Poverty and the Poor Law, 1815-1914 Post-script: Poverty in the inter-war years Public Health, 1815-75 8 Dirt, disease and public health: the nature of the problem 9 Cholera: the impetus for reform? 10 Reports, investigations and enquiries: what was their impact on public health reform? 11 Legislation: solving problems? 12 Persistent problems?
AS Assessment: Public Health 1815-75 Post-script: Public health, 1900-46
A2 SECTION: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Social policy and debate, 1815-1948 1 How effective were the social investigators of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? 2 How far did attitudes to the poor change between 1834 and 1948? 3 To what extent were the obstacles to the establishment of a public health system in the nineteenth century philosophical or pratical? 4 Nineteenth- and twentieth-century social reform: from laissez-faire to collectivism? 5 How have historians interpreted the issues surrounding poverty and welfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
A2 Assessment: Social policy and debate, 1815-1948.
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