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"It is important that students have access to the original writing of the 'greats' in social policy. This book, combining Titmuss's essays with contemporary commentaries by eminent academics, is an excellent example of how best to do this."
Martin Powell, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath
"... extremely well put together. The contributor commentaries provide a contemporary perspective and the extensive cross-referencing helps the reader to locate specific information. In consequence, the book is both thoughtful and thought provoking."
Journal of Social
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"It is important that students have access to the original writing of the 'greats' in social policy. This book, combining Titmuss's essays with contemporary commentaries by eminent academics, is an excellent example of how best to do this."
Martin Powell, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath

"... extremely well put together. The contributor commentaries provide a contemporary perspective and the extensive cross-referencing helps the reader to locate specific information. In consequence, the book is both thoughtful and thought provoking."
Journal of Social Policy

Synopsis
Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities.

This book is a companion volume to Welfare and wellbeing: Richard Titmuss's contribution to social policy edited by Pete Alcock, Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley and Adrian Sinfield (The Policy Press, 2001).

Full Description
Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities.

Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all their citizens.

Contents
Contents: Introduction Ann Oakley and Jonathan Barker; Prologue: The experience of being a patient; Part 1: Social medicine and social inequality Commentary by Michael Wadsworth; Infant mortality; The social disease of juvenile rheumatism; Health and social change: the example of rheumatic heart disease; War and disease; Part 2: The National Health Service Commentary by John R. Ashton; Towards a national hospital service; The policy background; The structure of the NHS in England; The NHS and general practice; The ethics and economics of medical care; Part 3: The sociology of health care Commentary by Jonathan Barker and Janet Askham; Medical behaviour, science and the NHS; The hospital and its patients; 'Therapeutic' drugs; Planning for ageing; Part 4: Health, values and social policy Commentary by Julian Le Grand; Choice and the welfare state; The gift of blood; Medical ethics and social change in developing societies; Health and the welfare state.
Epilogue: Richard Titmuss's contribution to the sociology of health and illness Raymond Illsley.
Autorenporträt
Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the UCL Social Research Institute. Jonathan Barker directed the Age Concern Research Unit from 1979 to 1986, co-founded the Institute of Gerontology at King's College and now directs Far-sight Research.