Private complaints and public health: Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service

Description

Richard Titmuss was one of the 20th century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. Most of Titmuss's work has been out of print for many years. This volume, like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all their citizens.

Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy and Director of the Social Science Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London. She has published many books, most recently Experiments in Knowing and Gender on Planet Earth. She is also Richard Titmuss's daughter and literary executor and has co-edited two earlier reissues of his work, The Gift Relationship and Welfare and Wellbeing, as well as a book about her parents' early work, Man and Wife. Jonathan Barker is a sociologist and consumer researcher who has focussed on issues of social and health policy and has conducted research on ageing and later life. Currently director of Far-sight Research, his published works include Black & Asian Older People in Britain and Our Future Elders.

"It is important that students have access to the original writing of the 'greats' in social policy. This book, combining Titmuss's essays with contemporary commentaries by eminent academics, is an excellent example of how best to do this." Martin Powell, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath