{"product_id":"dr-southwood-smith-a-retrospect-paperback-9781108037983","title":"Dr Southwood Smith; A Retrospect (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108037983","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDr Southwood Smith\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Retrospect\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 1898 biography of doctor and public health reformer Southwood Smith is revealing about social conditions in nineteenth-century England.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGertrude Hill Lewes (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108037983, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 December 2011\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e204 pages, 8 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.2 cm, 0.27 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThomas Southwood Smith (1788–1861) was a minister, physician and social reformer, who considerably improved the health of the poor by linking sanitation with epidemics. A utilitarian, and friend of Jeremy Bentham, his arguments in The Use of the Dead to the Living (1827) helped lead to the Anatomy Act of 1832 which allowed corpses from workhouses to be sold to medical schools, and so ended the market for grave-robbers while improving medical education. Although the fame of his granddaughter, Octavia Hill, has eclipsed his own reputation, Southwood Smith was an important figure in his day, whose work initiated many public health reforms. He served on the royal commission on children's employment, and was medical representative on the General Board of Health to deal with the cholera epidemic of 1848. This biography, written by his granddaughter Gertrude, who was G. H. Lewes' daughter-in-law, was published in 1898.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: recollections of my grandfather\u003cbr\u003e 1. Early life, 1788–1820\u003cbr\u003e 2. First years in London. Dawn of the science of modern hygiene, 1820–34\u003cbr\u003e 3. London continued. Literary and other work, 1820–34\u003cbr\u003e 4. Work on the Factory Commission, 1833\u003cbr\u003e 5. Rise of the sanitary movement, 1837\u003cbr\u003e 6. Philanthropic and medical work, 1840–8\u003cbr\u003e 7. The ten years' struggle for sanitary reform, 1838–48\u003cbr\u003e 8. Official life. General Board of Health, 1848–54\u003cbr\u003e 9. Retirement from public life. St. George's Hill, Weybridge, 1854–60\u003cbr\u003e 10. The sunset of life. Italy, 1861\u003cbr\u003e 11. The afterglow\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20history%20%5BHBTB%5D%22\"\u003eHBTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266054246680,"sku":"9781108037983","price":24.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108037983i.jpg?v=1696746341","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dr-southwood-smith-a-retrospect-paperback-9781108037983","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}