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Medicine and the workhouse /
While the welfare functions of workhouses have been well researched, their medical services have been comparatively neglected. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, workhouse medicine remained central to the medical experiences of the poor. Historians of welfare and medicine have been...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester : Woodbridge :
Unversity of Rochester Press ; Boydell & Brewer,
2013.
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| Colección: | Rochester studies in medical history ;
v. 27. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontcover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One: The Old Poor Law; 1 Contagion, Exclusion, and the Unique Medical World of the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse: London Infirmaries in Their Widest Relief; 2 The Elderly in the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse; 3 "These ANTE-CHAMBERS OF THE GRAVE"? Mortality, Medicine, and the Workhouse in Georgian London, 1725-1824; 4 Workhouse Medical Care from Working-Class Autobiographies, 1750-1834; 5 "A Sad Spectacle of Hopeless Mental Degradation": The Management of the Insane in West Midlands Workhouses, 1815-60; Part Two: The New Poor Law.
- 6 Workhouse Medicine in Ireland: A Preliminary Analysis, 1850-19147 Exploring Medical Care in the Nineteenth-Century Provincial Workhouse: A View from Birmingham; 8 "Immediate Death or a Life of Torture Are the Consequences of the System": The Bridgwater Union Scandal and Policy Change; 9 Practitioners and Paupers: Medicine at the Leicester Union Workhouse, 1867-1905; 10 Workhouse Medicine in the British Caribbean, 1834-38; 11 Poverty, Medicine, and the Workhouse in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Afterword; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index; Backcover.