Joanna Bornat / Robert Perks / Paul Thompson / Jan Walmsley (eds.)

Oral History, Health and Welfare

Herausgeber: Bornat, Joanna; Thompson, Paul; Perks, Robert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the significance of oral history to the development of health and welfare provisions. By focusing on individual experiences, the human dimensions of the history of medicine are explored.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415191562
• ISBN-10: 0415191564
• Artikelnr.: 21778870

Autorenporträt

Joanna Bornat, Robert Perks, Paul Thompson, Jan Warmsley

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Introduction
1 Family and vocation: career choice and the life histories of general practitioners
2 The role of the community pharmacist in health and welfare 1911-1986
3 Recollections of the pioneers of the geriatric medicine specialty
4 The last years of the workhouse
1930-1965
5 The contribution of professional education and training to becoming a midwife
1938-1951
Recollections of life 'on the district' in Scotland
1940-1970
7 Institutional abuse: memories of a 'special' school for visually impaired girls-a personal account
8 Oral history and the history of learning disability
9 The recipients' view of welfare
10 HIV and Aids testimonies in the 1990s
11 The delivery of birth control advice in South Wales between the wars
12 Midwives as 'mid-husbands'? Midwives and fathers
13 The modern hospice movement: 'bright lights sparkling' or 'a bit of heaven for a few'?
Index