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Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This
collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century
through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes
transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of
poverty to poor law officials.
Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This
collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century
through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes
transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of
poverty to poor law officials.
Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This
collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century
through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes
transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of
poverty to poor law officials.
Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This
collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century
through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes
transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of
poverty to poor law officials.
Presents narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain. This
collection covers the period from the early eighteenth century
through to the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 and includes
transcriptions of hand-written first-hand representations of
poverty to poor law officials.
This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new
perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the
existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the
nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with
professionalising trends. It unpicks the life stories of men who
could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a professional
persona of disinterested expertise, either because they could not
overcome public accusations of misconduct or because they struggled
privately with stress. In doing so it uncovers the trials of the
medical marketplace and the pressures of medical masculinity. All
professionalising groups risked falling short of rising
expectations, but for doctors these expectations were inflected in
some occupationally specific ways. -- .
This comparative study of urban poverty is the first to chart the
irregular pulse of poverty's encounters with officialdom. It
exploits an unusual methodology to secure new perspectives from
familiar sources. The highly localised characteristics of the
welfare economy generated a peculiarly urban environment for the
poor. Separate chapters examine the parameters of workhouse life
when the preconceptions of contemporaries have been stripped away;
the reach of institutional charities such as almshouses, schools
and infirmaries; and the surprisingly broad clientele of urban
pawnbrokers. Detailed analysis of the poor is achieved via
meticulous matching of individuals who fell within the purview of
two or more authorities. The result is a unique insight into the
survival economics of urban poverty, arising not from a tidy
network of welfare but from a loose assembly of options, where the
impoverished positioned themselves repeatedly to fit official,
philanthropic, or casual templates of the 'deserving'. This book
will be essential reading for historians of English poverty and
welfare, and eighteenth-century social and economic life. -- .
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.
This fascinating study investigates the experience of English
poverty between 1700 and 1900 and in the ways in which the poor
made ends meet. The phrase 'economy of makeshifts' has often been
used to summarise the patchy, desperate and sometimes failing
strategies of the poor for material survival. Incomes or benefits
derived from such strategies allegedly ranged from wages supported
by under-employment via petty crime through to charity, but
allusions to this array of makeshifts usually fall short of
answering vital questions about how and when the poor secured
access to them. This book represents the single most significant
attempt in print to supply the English 'economy of makeshifts' with
a solid, empirical basis and to advance the concept of makeshifts
from a vague but convenient label to a more precise yet inclusive
definition. Individual chapters written by some of the leading,
young historians of welfare examine how advantages gained from
access to common land, mobilisation of kinship support, resorting
to crime, and other marginal resources could prop up struggling
households. They suggest how the balance of these strategies might
change over time or be modified by gender, life-cycle and
geography. A comprehensive introduction summarises the state of
research on English poverty, and a thought-provoking conclusion
makes valuable suggestions for the direction of future research.
This book will be crucial for historians of social life and
welfare, of interest to researchers working on eighteenth
/nineteenth- century England and will be useful to undergraduates
seeking guidance on the historiography of poverty.
'Twenty-first century medicine is just the current stage of a
never-ending journey of tremendous complexity. Those of us who are
fortunate enough to practise in this day and age do so in ways that
are themselves the results of huge changes over many centuries -
advances in areas such as medication and surgical and imaging
techniques and developments in our understanding of the human body
and its attendant threats through genetics. Add to that list the
huge social and societal changes in public health, attitudes to
illness and changes in ethical viewpoints, and we find ourselves at
the current forefront of medical evolution but nowhere near the end
of this particular journey.' From the Foreword by Paul Lazarus This
fascinating book brings to life the history of medicine in Britain
since 1600. Throughout the historical account the authors cover
mainstream clinical issues but also make reference to the
importance of literature and art, presenting a wide-ranging view of
the past. It also incorporates milestones in other cultures and
epochs, where appropriate, for a balanced overview. The concise,
self-contained sections are a joy to read and can be easily dipped
into. The majority of chapters include suggested questions for
students, assisting group discussion. It is ideal for medical and
healthcare course organisers, lecturers and tutors who require a
rapid resource of information in their subject area - be it
cardiovascular disease, emergency medicine or child protection - to
provide context, interest and entertainment for their students. It
is also highly recommended as the basis for a programme of seminars
on the history of medicine.
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