Medicine and the Workhouse (Hardcover, New)

This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates wereelderly and infirm, needing not only accommodation and work but also medical relief. Historians of welfare, the English poor laws, and medicine have been aware of the importance of workhouse-based medicine, but the topic hasnot been studied in depth. This volume is the first to examine the history of the medical services provided by these institutions both in Britain and its former colonies, over the period covered by the Old and New Poor Laws. Written by prominent historians of medicine, welfare, and social policy, the essays document the experiences of those who received care or died in these houses, and form the critical foundation for a new historiography of workhouse medicine. Contributors: Jeremy Boulton, Virginia Crossman, Romola Davenport, Steven King, Angela Negrine, Susannah Ottaway, Rita Pemberton, Jonathan Reinarz, Alistair Ritch, Leonard Schwarz, Samantha Shave, Kevin Siena, Leonard Smith, Alannah Tomkins. Jonathan Reinarz is director of the History of Medicine Unit at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published extensively on the history of English medical institutions, 1750-1950. Leonard Schwarz has recently retired as a reader in Urban History at the University of Birmingham, where he founded the Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre.

General

Imprint:	University of Rochester Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Rochester Studies in Medical History
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2013
Editors:	Jonathan Reinarz • Leonard Schwarz
Contributors:	Alannah Tomkins • Alistair Ritch • Angela Negrine • Jeremy Boulton • Jonathan Reinarz • K80169 King • Kevin Siena (Royalty Account) • Leonard Schwarz
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	290
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-58046-448-2
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine
LSN:	1-58046-448-3
Barcode:	9781580464482

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