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When originally published in 1988, this book presented new evidence
of inequalities in health found among communities in different
areas of the North of England. It relates this evidence to
long-term trends taking place in patterns of health in Britain as a
whole and explores how far health inequalities can be explained by
variations in material deprivation. The book provides a detailed
examination of the correlation between health and wealth, or
ill-health and deprivation in Britain in the 20th century but the
book has an enduring relevance as the Covid Pandemic has once again
shown that regional disparities in wealth have profound outcomes
for health. The book is of significance for health professionals,
social services and those planner and politicians concerned with
levelling up.
In 2008, sociologist Peter Townsend celebrated his 80th birthday.
It has been 60 years since his first published work. The range of
his work is exceptional, including research on the UK's inner city
deprivation; older people contemplating retirement; exclusion on
the basis of class, race, gender, age, and disability; individual
versus state responsibility for health; the social purposes and
viability of residential institutions and hospitals; child and
extended family development; and persistent poverty. This reader is
a collection of his most distinctive work. The Peter Townsend
Reader looks at the changes in social policy that have taken place
in the UK, as well as internationally, over the past six decades.
Each section of the book is introduced by an editor who is
acquainted with Peter Townsend's work. It provides insight into the
development of one social scientist's entire intellectual approach,
particularly in choosing to place social policy at the center of
social theory. The b
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