Dr Southwood Smith: A Retrospect (Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine) - Softcover

Lewes, Gertrude Hill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108037984 ISBN 13: 9781108037983

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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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Book Description:

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. His views on better living conditions and quarantine reduced deaths from cholera. This 1898 biography was written by his granddaughter Gertrude, sister of Octavia Hill.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1108037984
• ISBN 13: 9781108037983
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204