Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most in influential expert advisers of the twentieth century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improv
A survey of new research in the history of urban public health, this book links the approaches of demographic and medical history with the methodologies of urban history and historical geography. It c
Financing Medicine brings together a collection of essays dealing with the financing of medical care in Britain since the mid-eighteenth century, with a view to addressing two major
