This excellent book will be of central interest to many historians
of medicine, mostly to those dealing with public health and
medicine in the first half of the 19th century." Medical History.
This work is the established deep analysis of the ideas,
institutions and men who coalesced into what became the
characteristically Victorian statistical movement to probe,
measure, quantify and reform society. This was intended "to prevent
misfortune and vice, sickness and improvidence." The early
Victorians, in an age of serious social tension and the threat of
tumultuous unrest, found it imperative to know the reasons behind
multiplying challenges to their society. Faced with 'the condition
of England' question they sought its causes. At the root of that
search was the cluster of values known as the ideology of
'improvement'. This work forges a valuable intellectual link in the
chain that unites the earliest forms of social enquiry with Henry
Mayhew, Charles booth, Seebohm Rowntree and the modern statistical
sciences of society.
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