Mar 12, 2014
Lisa Curtice in conversation with Henrietta Trotter who was closely involved with the Pioneer Health Centre, popularly known as the Peckham Experiment. The centre was set up in 1926 as a public health research study and became something of an icon for people interested in self organising communities.
The Peckham Experiment The Pioneer Health Centre closed in 1950 but the Pioneer Health Foundation continues to promote the legacy and the ideas of the Centre. Peckham Experiment in the 21st Century Total participation, total health: reinventing the Peckham Health Centre for the 1990s Scotsman article on plan to recreate the experiment in Fife Science, Synthesis and Sanity. An inquiry into the nature of living, by George Scott Williamson, Innes Hope Pearse (1965)
Music Credit: Something Elated by Broke For Free