Recognition Edwin Chadwick

chadwick s name appears on frieze of london school of hygiene & tropical medicine

chadwick remembered @ london school of hygiene & tropical medicine name appears among names of 23 pioneers of public health , tropical medicine chosen honoured when school built in 1929. commemorated @ heriot watt university in edinburgh, scotland engineering building.

according priti joshi in 2004 evaluation of career has drastically changed since 1950s:

the chadwick emerges in recent accounts not more different mid-century chadwick. post-war critics saw him visionary, often-embattled crusader public health enemies formidable vision, extending liberal , radical tradition, prevailed. cultural critics, on other hand, present chadwick misrepresented (if not outright oppressed) poor , instrumental in developing massive bureaucracy police lives. thus, while earlier accounts highlighted chadwick’s accomplishments, progress of public health reforms, , details of legislative politics, more recent ones draw attention representations of poor, erasures in text, , growing nineteenth-century institutionalization of poor sanitary report promotes. chadwick, in other words, portrayed either pioneer of reform or avatar of bureaucratic oppression.




^ behind frieze - sir edwin chadwick (1800-1890) | london school of hygiene & tropical medicine | lshtm . www.lshtm.ac.uk. retrieved 2017-01-24. 
^ priti joshi, edwin chadwick s self-fashioning: professionalism, masculinity, , victorian poor. victorian literature , culture 32.2 (2004): 353-370, quoting p 353.