ABSTRACT
The Peckham Experiment was one of the first attempts in Britain to identify the social, communal, and family conditions that allow for the expression of good health in individuals. The initial study, carried out in London in the 1920s and 1930s, articulated a new view of the science of health that continues to be highly relevant today. A fervent proponent of this view, Dr Kenneth Barlow (1988), describes the definition of health that emerged in the following terms.
