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Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid - The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 (Paperback)
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Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid - The Consumption of Health and Welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 (Paperback)
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The history of the voluntary sector in British towns and cities has
received increasing scholarly attention in recent years.
Nevertheless, whilst there have been a number of valuable
contributions looking at issues such as charity as a key welfare
provider, charity and medicine, and charity and power in the
community, there has been no book length exploration of the role
and position of the recipient. By focusing on the recipients of
charity, rather than the donors or institutions, this volume
tackles searching questions of social control and cohesion, and the
relationship between providers and recipients in a new and
revealing manner. It is shown how these issues changed over the
course of the nineteenth century, as the frontier between the state
and the voluntary sector shifted away from charity towards greater
reliance on public finance, workers' contributions, and mutual aid.
In turn, these new sources of assistance enriched civil society,
encouraging democratization, empowerment and social inclusion for
previously marginalized members of the community. The book opens
with an introduction that locates medicine, charity and mutual aid
within their broad historiographical and urban contexts. Twelve
archive-based, inter-related chapters follow. Their main
chronological focus is the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, which witnessed such momentous changes in the attitudes
to, and allocation of, charity and poor relief. However, individual
chapters on the early modern period, the eighteenth century and the
aftermath of the Second World War provide illuminating context and
help ensure that the volume provides a systematic overview of the
subject that will be of interest to social, urban, and medical
historians.
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