Redefining security – lessons from public health

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Notes

1. In early October 2015, a senior government official admitted that the ‘prosperity agenda’ of promoting British companies overseas now took precedence over concern with human rights. (The Independent, 2 October, 2015).

2. According to Artman (2015), Chadwick’s work ‘led to a total revolution in social thought. It established a link between sanitary conditions and high mortality rates showing that the misery of the poor lay within the government’s control, not in some intrinsic deficiency in the class’.