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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:703-704
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Book Review

Poverty, Inequality And Health In Britain, 1800–2000: A Reader.

George Davey Smith, Daniel Dorling, Mary Shaw (eds). Bristol: The Policy Press, 2001, pp. 384, £55.00 (HB). ISBN: 1-86134-328-0; £15.99 (PB). ISBN: 1-86134-211-X.

Peter Razzell


The editors of this volume are to be congratulated on the quality of the selections from classics texts on poverty, inequality and health in Britain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They have ranged widely both in time and subject matter, including material from Malthus, Farr, Chadwick, Engels, Mayhew, Marx, Rowntree, Booth, Pember Reeves, Greenwood, McGonigle, Boyd-Orr, Beveridge, Titmuss, Morris, Abel-Smith, Townsend, and the recent Black and Acheson Reports.

The book has focussed both on the history of poverty and its effect on health and mortality. The authors quote widely from statistical studies as well as narrative descriptions of poverty from social surveys and other sources. For example, they cite Collis and Greenwood's influential work on the health of the industrial worker, detailing the effects . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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