Peter Townsend reader

David Gordon is Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research and Professor of Social Justice in the School for PolicyStudies, University of Bristol. Ruth Levitas has been Professor of Sociology at Bristol since 2001, and a member of the Department of Sociology at Bristol since 1979.Peter Phillimore is professor of social anthropology at Newcastle University, in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology. Chris Phillipson has held the post of Professor of Applied Social Studies and Social Gerontology, at the University of Keele since 1988. CMargot E. Salomon is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and Law Department, London School of Economics andPolitical Science. Alan Walker joined the Department of Sociological Studies at the University of Sheffield in 1977 and has been a Lecturer, Senior Lecturerand Reader in Social Policy. Nicola Yeates is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the Open University and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Dublin City University.

• Introduction; Section I: Sociology and social policy ~ edited by Alan Walker; Section II: From welfare state to international welfare ~ edited by Nicola Yeates; Section III: Poverty ~ edited by David Gordon; Section IV: Inequality and social exclusion ~ edited by Ruth Levitas; Section V: Health inequalities and health policy ~ edited by Peter Phillimore; Section VI: Older people ~ edited by Chris Phillipson; Section VII: Disability ~ edited by Alan Walker; Section VIII: Social justice and human rights ~ edited by Margot E. Salomon.

"This collection of Peter Townsend's writing is a tribute to his breadth of scholarship, and the superb clarity of his writing and his commitment will continue to inspire social scientists." Professor Jonathan Bradshaw, Department of Social Policy and Social work, University of York