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This review of social progress in the principal countries of the world should be studied by those interested in the application of science and economics to human welfare. Dr. Sand quotes impressive statistics from authoritative sources in support of the argument that poverty is the main limiting factor for human progress. Housing, nutrition, medical care and leisure vary with income, and these are the predominant factors determining health, physique and even intelligence. “At all ages of life, at all times and in all countries, physical and intellectual development follow, on the whole, the curve of social opportunity. Descending successively from the independent class to the middle class, the skilled workers and to the labourers, we find that disease and death gather an increasing harvest of human lives.”
Health and Human Progress:
an Essay in Sociological Medicine. By René Sand. Translated from the Author's revised French text by Dr. C. F. Marshall. Pp. x + 278. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 10s 6d. net.
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O., J. Science and Economics in Human Welfare. Nature 137, 339 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137339a0
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