Steven King

Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations, I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 645g
• ISBN-13: 9781526129000
• ISBN-10: 1526129000
• Artikelnr.: 50859440

Autorenporträt

Steven King is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Locating sickness and medical welfare 1. The ecology of poor relief
2. Defining and measuring 3. Negotiating medical welfare Part II: The scale
and character of medical welfare 4 Treating the sick poor: a quantitative
overview 5 Medical People 6 Wider medical welfare 7 Dying, being buried and
leaving people behind Part III: Parochial medical welfare in context 8
Institutions and the sick poor 9 The medical economy of makeshifts 10
Making sense of diversity Appendix Bibliography Index