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Health And Economics Man's Figjht Sickness And Want
Without health, men earn little wealth; without wealth, men seldom attain full health.
This statement may appear a little far-fetched to the vast majority of readers of this book, who belong to established civilizations: to countries which for a cen- tury and more, appalling wars notwithstanding, have on the whole enjoyed a rising spiral of income and property, and of social, educational, medical, and public health services.
But more than half the peoples of the world are still in what Professor Ritchie Calder describes (p. 324) as the Misery-Go-Round. With their industrial and social revolutions more or less behind them, the rich nations are now beginning to recognize the extent of their global task, and to help the rest of the world out of its misery and through the poverty and sicknen barrier. Some of them think this is a moral duty, others a good investment. It does not much matter why they think they must do something. The point is: they must.
Quite simply, we have mixed health and economics together in this volume because in practice they are mixed. We see modern economists as inheritors and sharers of many of the ancient ideals of service and respect of persons held by doctors.
Here we analyze health, and the medical principles and services behind it; and wealth, and the economic principles and services behind it. Both spheres are mixed, and within each is a variety of drives, motives, and systems. Many great nations, for example, practice a mixed economy, just as they have practiced a mixture of private and public medicine ever since the Romans, as well as training private physicians, started hospitals and organized public sanitation. We hope those who read Health and Economics will come to appreciate the solid foundations of enlightened public service that underlie these different systems, and share our optimism that, within the lifetime of our younger readers at least, starvation and many diseases can be banished from the earth.
For this ninth book in our series the editorial board has been joined by Dr. Naomi Datta, lecturer in Bac- teriology at the Postgraduate Medical School of London, and Dr. F. T. Blackaby, Senior Research Officer at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London.
The illustrations, historical and contemporary, follow the tradition of the series, as do the 17 paintings, or "chapter pieces" pieces by our chief artist-designer, Hans Erni. As always, our approach has been systematic, but an index is provided for quick alphabetic reference
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