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Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834 /

'<I>Sickness, medical welfare </i><i>and the English poor</i> explores the welfare experiences of the sick poor from the 1750s through to the 1830s, covering the so-called 'crisis of the Old Poor Law'. Drawing together a considerable amount of data - from accou...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: King, Steven, 1966- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2018.
Collection:Social histories of medicine.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I: Locating sickness and medical welfare
  • 1. The ecology of poor relief
  • 2. Defining and measuring
  • 3. Negotiating medical welfare
  • Part II: The scale and character of medical welfare
  • 4. Treating the sick poor: a quantitative overview
  • 5. Medical People
  • 6. Wider medical welfare
  • 7. Dying, being buried and leaving people behind
  • Part III: Parochial medical welfare in context
  • 8. Institutions and the sick poor
  • 9. The medical economy of makeshifts
  • 10. Making sense of diversity
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index.