Cradle to Grave

Alysa Levene is Senior Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University, specialising in the history of child health and welfare.Martin Powell is Professor of Health and Social Policy, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, and the author of essays, books and articles on contemporary and historical social policy.John Stewart is Chair of Health History at Glasgow Caledonian University and Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. His research interests include the history of child guidance and child psychiatry.Becky Taylor is Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She specialises in issues of class, migration and the relationship between the state and marginal groups.

«This is a well-written and well-referenced book, composed in a spare, economical style. [...] It will remain a key text for historians of local authority health services for many years to come.» (John Welshman, Social History of Medicine 25, 2012/3)

• Contents: Localist Welfare Systems – Municipal Medicine – National Perspectives – Local Perspectives: Barnsley - Eastbourne - Newport - West Hartlepool.