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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 May 2012
    22 December 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139103763
    9781108037983
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139103763
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    Weight & Pages:
    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.27kg, 204 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Social and Population History, History, History of Medicine
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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    Subjects:
    Social and Population History, History, History of Medicine
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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    Thomas 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.

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