Essays In War-Time: Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene - Paperback

A moving, timely reawakening of a classic mind. Havelock Ellis' Essays In War-Time gathers crisp public health essays into a social reform treatise that speaks with both urgency and reverence. This volume threads wartime sociology with enduring questions of ethics, sexuality, and policy. Restored for today's readers, it offers a clear map of how public health, social hygiene ethics, and sexuality and society intersect under pressure-illuminating the Edwardian era as well as the world war one era. For academic readers and policy makers alike, the book reads as both a rigorous scholarly companion and a humane, accessible meditation on how societies organise care, consent, and collective responsibility in times of crisis. Within its essays lie a concise, panoramic portrait of social reform as a living, evolving endeavour, one that still informs modern sociology anthologies and public health discourse. A remarkable artefact for casual readers and classic-literature collectors, this edition is more than a reprint. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today's and future generations. More than a book, it is a cultural treasure and a collector's item-an essential bridge between Edwardian inquiry and contemporary debates about wartime public health, sexuality studies, and the social responsibilities we share.