‘Support’: who needs it?

[摘要] ‘England has a proud history of improving the health of its people’.1 The first sentence of the executive summary of the new public health White Paper proposes a dramatic revision of English history to provide retrospective ideological justification for the policies of the New Labour government. When I went to school, England had a proud history of being the ‘workshop of the world’ and of being the home of the ‘mother of parliaments’. For an older generation it had a proud history of imperial conquest; younger and more radical spirits claimed a history of popular democracy and the rule of law. But now we learn that the long procession of monarchs and statesmen, soldiers and adventurers, inventors and manufacturers, was merely preparing the way for Tony Blair's programme for ‘making healthy choices easier’.

[学科分类] 卫生学