Alistair Ritch

Sickness in the Workhouse

Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage.

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Produktdetails

• Rochester Studies in Medical History
• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 614g
• ISBN-13: 9781580469753
• ISBN-10: 1580469752
• Artikelnr.: 58025020

Autorenporträt

Alistair Ritch

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Pauperism and Sickness From
Acute Illness to Chronic Disability Segregating Fever Patients Controlling
Disorderly Behavior Day-to-day Doctoring Medical Therapies Poor Law Nursing
"Every Care and Kindness": The Standard of Workhouse Medicine Appendix A:
Prevalence of Selected Infectious Diseases in Birmingham Workhouse on the
Last Day of the First Week of Each Quarter for the Years 1877-80 and
1894-1911 Appendix B: Medical Relief in Birmingham Workhouse for Selected
Weeks, 1851-56 Appendix C: List of Drugs Kept in the Wards of Birmingham
Infirmary in 1896 Appendix D: Pauperism Rates and Institutionalization
Rates for Birmingham Parish, Wolverhampton Union, and England and Wales,
1840-1911 Bibliography