Over the last twenty years, historians have become increasingly interested in the role of non-state organizations in the development of welfare services. This study is particularly focused on the role of friendly societies and other insurance bodies in the provision of aid for the elderly and the sick.

Product Description: These two volumes bring together important and influential articles and papers on different aspects of the history of health and welfare. The collection includes classic and more recent essays on the origins and nature of mortality decline; the early-life origins of adult health and disease; changes in height, weight and body mass; the definition and measurement of the 'standard of living'; and the economic and social impact of health improvements...read more

Product Description: Bernard was born in 1965 and raised in the projects of Beardsley Terrace in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In the late ’70s he sold drugs to help better his condition. He became a dropout and left high school his senior year. After seeing more death and destruction around him than success and wealth he went to Job Corps and on to college to better his condition...read more

Product Description: Over the last 200 years Britain has witnessed profound changes in the nature and extent of state welfare. Drawing on the latest historical and social science research The Origins of the British Welfare State looks at the main developments in the history of social welfare provision in this period...read more

Product Description: Considering cases from Europe to India, this collection brings together current critical research into the role played by racial issues in the production of medical knowledge. Confronting such controversial themes as colonialism and medicine, the origins of racial thinking and health and migration, the distinguished contributors examine the role played by medicine in the construction of racial categories...read more

Product Description: This study examines the background to the establishment of the school medical service in 1908 and looks at the full range of economic, social and political factors which influenced its subsequent development. It also uses information taken from the reports of individual School Medical Officers to examine the history of child health in Britain between 1908 and 1974...read more

Product Description: The establishment of the school medical service on 1st January 1908 represented a major new development in the history of public health provision and can be regarded as one of the most important single steps on the road to the creation of the 'welfare state'...read more

Product Description: New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:• The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards• Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings• Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play• Critical, contextual and staging notes• Photographs of productions where applicable• A full introduction which provides a critical account of the play, the staging conventions of the time and recent stage history; discusses authorship, date, sources and the text; and gives guidance for further reading...read more