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Medicine and the Workhouse /
While the welfare functions of the workhouse have been well researched, its medical services have been comparatively neglected. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and despite much administrative reform, workhouse medicine remained central to the medical experiences of the poor. Work...
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| Formato: | Electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Suffolk
Boydell et Brewer
2013
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contagion, exclusion, and the unique medical world of the eighteenth-century workhouse : London infirmaries in their widest relief / Kevin Siena
- The elderly in the eighteenth-century workhouse / Susannah Ottaway
- "These ANTE-CHAMBERS OF THE GRAVE"? : mortality, medicine, and the workhouse in Georgian London, 1725-1824 / Jeremy Boulton, Romola Davenport, and Leonard Schwarz
- Workhouse medical care from working-class autobiographies, 1750-1834 / Alannah Tomkins
- "A sad spectacle of hopeless mental degradation" : the management of the insane in West Midlands workhouses, 1815-60 / Leonard Smith
- Workhouse medicine in Ireland : a preliminary analysis, 1850-1914 / Virginia Crossman
- Exploring medical care in the nineteenth-century provincial workhouse : a view from Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz and Alistair Ritch
- "Immediate death or a life of torture are the consequences of the system" : the Bridgwater Union scandal and policy change / Samantha Shave
- Practitioners and paupers : medicine at the Leicester Union Workhouse, 1867-1905 / Angela Negrine
- Workhouse medicine in the British Caribbean, 1834-38 /Rita Pemberton
- Poverty, medicine, and the workhouse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : an afterword / Steven King.