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Page xiv
... common features in the response everywhere , although the timing was different . Public health began to interest me during the 1940s - before the social history of medicine became fashionable and the Chadwick Lecture reprinted here ...
... common features in the response everywhere , although the timing was different . Public health began to interest me during the 1940s - before the social history of medicine became fashionable and the Chadwick Lecture reprinted here ...
Page xvi
... common or individual , although some ' literature ' , of course , is ' escapist ' and there is an element of fantasy even , perhaps not least , in the work of novelists like Trollope who endear themselves to historians . The word ' com ...
... common or individual , although some ' literature ' , of course , is ' escapist ' and there is an element of fantasy even , perhaps not least , in the work of novelists like Trollope who endear themselves to historians . The word ' com ...
Page xvii
... common . It was through the study of cities rather than through the study of class that I became as interested both in ' cityscapes ' and people's very varied perceptions of them . While I was influenced by Patrick Geddes's plea in his ...
... common . It was through the study of cities rather than through the study of class that I became as interested both in ' cityscapes ' and people's very varied perceptions of them . While I was influenced by Patrick Geddes's plea in his ...
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