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This well-written and engaging book steers the reader through the epidemio-logical and environmental terrain of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both in terms of contemporaries' conceptions of the causes of disease and their amelioration, and how the historian problematises morbidity and mortality in urban Britain. It reproduces in one body Luckin's work at an accessible price. * Family and Community History *

This well-written and engaging book steers the reader through the epidemio-logical and environmental terrain of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both in terms of contemporaries’ conceptions of the causes of disease and their amelioration, and how the historian problematises morbidity and mortality in urban Britain. It reproduces in one body Luckin’s work at an accessible price. * Family and Community History *

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Bill Luckin is Professor of History at the University of Bolton, UK, and the co-editor of the ""Social History of Medicine"" journal.

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