Venereal disease, hospitals, and the urban poor : London's "foul wards," 1600-1800 /

This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of the pox among the poor. Some have asserted that public authorities turned their backs on the "foul" and only began to offer care for venereal patients in the Enlightenment. An exploration of hospitals a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siena, Kevin Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2004.
Colección:Rochester studies in medical history.
Temas:
1600-1799
Sexually transmitted diseases > England > London > History > 17th century.
Sexually transmitted diseases > England > London > History > 18th century.
Urban poor > Health and hygiene > England > London > History > 17th century.
Urban poor > Health and hygiene > England > London > History > 18th century.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
Sexually transmitted diseases > England > History > 18th century.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases > history
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
Urban Health Services > history
Infections transmissibles sexuellement > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Infections transmissibles sexuellement > Angleterre > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Santé et hygiène > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Santé et hygiène > Angleterre > Londres > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 18e siècle.
MEDICAL > Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Contagious.
HISTORY > Europe > Ireland.
Medicine.
Sexually transmitted diseases.
Urban poor > Health and hygiene.
London
England.
England > London.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The foul disease, privacy, and the medical marketplace
  • The foul disease in the royal hospitals: the seventeenth century
  • The foul disease in the royal hospitals: the eighteenth century
  • The foul disease and the Poor Law: workhouse medicine in the eighteenth century
  • The foul disease and moral reform? the Lock Hospital
  • Rethinking the Lock Hospital
  • Conclusion: poverty and the pox in early modern London.

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