5. Pathologizing Poverty
This chapter looks at the pathologisation of poverty in the context of the New Poor Law (1834), its afterlife and the establishment of the Public Health Act (1848). It seeks to establish the connection between idioms of writing disease and the political process of pathologizing destitution—through...
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| Language: | English |
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Università degli Studi di Torino
2021-02-01
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| Series: | Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas |
| Online Access: | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jihi/article/view/5222 |