Oral History, Health and Welfare

Herausgeber: Bornat, Joanna; Perks, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. It includes discussion on: * the end of the workhouse * professional education and training of midwives * HIV and Aids * birth control * the role of the community pharmacist * pioneers of geriatric medicine * oral history and the history of learning disability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781138868250
• ISBN-10: 1138868256
• Artikelnr.: 42487990

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