Poor Health

Introduction: Inequalities and Health, Virginia Berridge; Part 1 Britain Before the Black Report; Chapter 1 The Dimensions of Inequality: Height and Weight Variation in Britain, 1700-2000, Roderick Floud; Chapter 2 Health, Class, Place and Politics: Social Capital and Collective Provision in Britain, Simon Szreter; Chapter 3 From Social Structure to Social Behaviour in Britain after the Second World War, Dorothy Porter; Chapter 4 Investigating Inequalities in Health before Black, Charles Webster; Part 2 The Black Report; Chapter 5 The Black Committee on Health Inequalities (1977-80): A Personal View of its Work, Stuart Blume; Chapter 6 The Origin of the Black Report: A Conversation with Richard Wilkinson, Virginia Berridge; Chapter 7 Dispelling the Myths of the Black Report: A Memoir, Patrick Jenkin; Chapter 8 The Black Report and The Health Divide, Virginia Berridge; Part 3 After the Black Report; Chapter 9 The 'Second Black Report'? The Acheson Report as Another Opportunity to Tackle Health Inequalities, Mark Exworthy; Chapter 10 Before and after the Black Report: Four Fallacies, Sally Macintyre;