The passionate economist : how Brian Abel-Smith shaped global health and social welfare
Sheard, Sally2014
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He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This book is a biography of Brian Abel-Smith. It takes a historical perspective to analyse the development of health and social welfare systems since the 1950s, exposing the critical impact of long-running debates on poverty and state responsibility, especially in Britain. This book offers a comparative study of how developing countries sought better health and social welfare, enabled by the World Health Organisation and other agencies for whom Abel-Smith regularly worked.
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Imprint:
Bristol : The Policy Press, 2014.
Collation:
xv, 581 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781447314844 (hbk)
Dewey class:
330.092
Language:
English
BRN:
1042795