Peter Brereton Townsend

This book presents new evidence of inequalities in health found among communities in the North of England. Townsend et al relate this evidence to long-term national health trends and variations in material deprivation.

134 p. : 21 cm

This reader brings together a collection of Peter Townsend's most distinctive work. It allows readers to review the changes in social policy that have taken place nationally and internationally over the past six decades, and provides an insight into the development of one social scientist's entire intellectual approach.