The so-called Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre (PHC), was one of the most important social experiments of the modern era. Combining a micro-historical perspective with approaches from the history of science - as well as analysing historical photographs from the Centre itself - this book shows how bio-medical theories on social organization informed research on social life in the 1930s and 1940s. The outcome was a kind of social laboratory, where new insights into the power of social groups to self-organize were generated - insights which…mehr
The so-called Peckham Experiment, conducted between 1935 and 1950 in the London Pioneer Health Centre (PHC), was one of the most important social experiments of the modern era. Combining a micro-historical perspective with approaches from the history of science - as well as analysing historical photographs from the Centre itself - this book shows how bio-medical theories on social organization informed research on social life in the 1930s and 1940s. The outcome was a kind of social laboratory, where new insights into the power of social groups to self-organize were generated - insights which were soon discussed around the world and which still haunt British political debates today.
David Kuchenbuch is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany.
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Contents List of figures Acknowledgments List of abbreviations 1. Introduction A laboratory of the present? "Peckham" as a social generator of knowledge Structure of the book 2. From C3 to A1 - reforming the working class family (1925-1931) On Queen's Road Pioneers? Helping with self-help Biographical aspects Plans for expansion Responsibility as a biological function: the first book Internal supremacy 3. St Mary's Road, S. E. 15 - new premises, initial routines? (1931-1935) Observation platforms and niches for congregation Success stories 4. "Living Structure of Society" - the magnum opus and its scientific context The social environment as growth medium The ideal life Culture and cultivation Interwar holisms Eugenics, evolution and community 5. Looking through the bioscope - research and social interaction in the prewar centre (1935-1939) Data collection Chaos and order Mary Langman's recollections Revisions: "socialized science" Genius and autocrat The biologist as the summit of creation 6. Interim findings 7. The centre in photographs - visual stimulation and participant observation Holistic perspectives and visual contagions Moving images: The Centre A winter evening 8. Guinea pigs? The members between participation and social control Members' memoirs "Bouquets & Brickbats" An experiment in education 9. Missed opportunities - the centre and the welfare state (1939-1949) War, agriculture and family "Physician, heal thyself" Reviews and an enforced reopening Visitors and lecture tours "Peckham" in the world's press 10. "The Passing of Peckham" (1949-1959) Criticisms from within and without The directors' fall from power The money trail From guinea pigs to citizens' group Proof of the pudding 11."Peckham" after the Pioneer Health Centre and the changing discourse of health (1959) (Post-)modernization From social engineer to social entrepreneur 12. Preliminary conclusion: the Pioneer Health Centre as liberal missing link? 13. The promise of Peckham. Hidden legacies Anarchist appropriations The Peckham experiment as seen by city planners and architects Brave new worlds A "strange laboratory"? Northfield, Hawkspur & Hawthorne Experiments in self-organization Therapeutic experiments The experimental animal 14. Epilogue References Archives
Contents List of figures Acknowledgments List of abbreviations 1. Introduction A laboratory of the present? "Peckham" as a social generator of knowledge Structure of the book 2. From C3 to A1 - reforming the working class family (1925-1931) On Queen's Road Pioneers? Helping with self-help Biographical aspects Plans for expansion Responsibility as a biological function: the first book Internal supremacy 3. St Mary's Road, S. E. 15 - new premises, initial routines? (1931-1935) Observation platforms and niches for congregation Success stories 4. "Living Structure of Society" - the magnum opus and its scientific context The social environment as growth medium The ideal life Culture and cultivation Interwar holisms Eugenics, evolution and community 5. Looking through the bioscope - research and social interaction in the prewar centre (1935-1939) Data collection Chaos and order Mary Langman's recollections Revisions: "socialized science" Genius and autocrat The biologist as the summit of creation 6. Interim findings 7. The centre in photographs - visual stimulation and participant observation Holistic perspectives and visual contagions Moving images: The Centre A winter evening 8. Guinea pigs? The members between participation and social control Members' memoirs "Bouquets & Brickbats" An experiment in education 9. Missed opportunities - the centre and the welfare state (1939-1949) War, agriculture and family "Physician, heal thyself" Reviews and an enforced reopening Visitors and lecture tours "Peckham" in the world's press 10. "The Passing of Peckham" (1949-1959) Criticisms from within and without The directors' fall from power The money trail From guinea pigs to citizens' group Proof of the pudding 11."Peckham" after the Pioneer Health Centre and the changing discourse of health (1959) (Post-)modernization From social engineer to social entrepreneur 12. Preliminary conclusion: the Pioneer Health Centre as liberal missing link? 13. The promise of Peckham. Hidden legacies Anarchist appropriations The Peckham experiment as seen by city planners and architects Brave new worlds A "strange laboratory"? Northfield, Hawkspur & Hawthorne Experiments in self-organization Therapeutic experiments The experimental animal 14. Epilogue References Archives
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