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Pioneering Health in London, 1935-2000: The Peckham Experiment

Pioneering Health in London, 1935-2000: The Peckham Experiment

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and

Health GeneralMedical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 113872291X
ISBN13: 9781138722910
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 2 2018
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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