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Book SynopsisProminent themes in the discourses on Britain's post-war regeneration include national character, citizenship, fitness, education, utopia, and community. The chapters in the present volume address these themes and break new ground by examining debates well known in political and literary history through their relations to science, medicine, architecture and ideas of social and political ‘health'.
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Table of ContentsNotes on contributors 1. Christopher LAWRENCE and Anna-K. MAYER: Regenerating England: An Introduction 2. Michael BARTHOLOMEW: H.V. Morton's English Utopia 3. Christopher LAWRENCE: Edward Jenner's Jockey Boots and the Great Tradition in English Medicine 1918-1939 4. Anna K. MAYER: ‘A combative sense of duty': Englishness and the Scientists 5. Timothy BOON: ‘The shell of a prosperous age': History, Landscape and the Modern in Paul Rotha's The Face of Britain (1935) 6. Elizabeth DARLING: ‘Enriching and enlarging the whole sphere of human activities': The Work of the Voluntary Sector in Housing Reform in Inter-War Britain 7. Keith VERNON: A Healthy Society for Future Intellectuals: Developing Student Life at Civic Universities 8. Abigail BEACH: Potential For Participation: Health Centres and the Idea of Citizenship c. 1920-1940 9. Mathew THOMSON: Constituting Citizenship: Mental Deficiency, Mental Health and Human Rights in Inter-war Britain 10. Rhodri HAYWARD: The Biopolitics of Arthur Keith and Morley Roberts 11. Lesley A. HALL: ‘Not a domestic utensil but a woman and a citizen': Stella Browne on Women, Health and Society Index
