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Author : Jonathan Reinarz,Leonard Schwarz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464482
This text examines the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Author : Alistair Ritch
Publisher : Rochester Studies in Medical H
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781580469753
England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage of the New Poor Law until the outbreak of World War I.By closely analyzing the day-to-day practice of workhouse doctors and nurses, author Alistair Ritch questions the idea that medical care was invariably of poor quality and brought little benefit to patients. Medical staff in the workhouses labored under severe restraints and grappled with the immense health issues facing their patients. Sickness in the Workhouse brings to life this hidden group of workhouse staff and highlights their significance within the local health economy. Among other things, as the author notes, workhouses needed to provide medical care for nonpaupers, such as institutional isolation facilities for those with infectious diseases. This groundbreaking books highlights these doctors and nurses in order to illuminate our understanding of this significant yet little understood area of poor law history.ALISTAIR RITCH was consultant physician in geriatric medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, and senior clinical lecturer, University of Birmingham, UK, and is currently honorary research fellow, History of Medicine Unit, University of Birmingham, UK.
Author : Joseph Rogers
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : EAN:8596547016090
Joseph Rogers, M.D.: Reminiscences of a Workhouse Medical Officer is a memoir by Joseph Rogers. Rogers was an English physician and campaigning medical officer, known for promoting reform in the administration of the British Poor Law.
Author : Joseph Rogers
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1406889954
Rogers (1821-89) was an English physician and campaigning medical officer who for 40 years promoted reform in the administration of the Poor Law. After setting up a medical practice in London in 1844 he became a supernumerary medical officer at St. Anne's, Soho in 1855 on the occasion of an outbreak of cholera, and the following year was appointed medical officer to the Strand workhouse. Conditions there were very bad and Rogers had the workhouse master, George Catch, removed. In 1861 he came before the select committee of the House of Commons speaking on the supply of drugs to workhouse infirmaries and his suggestions were adopted. Notably, his evidence was largely responsible for bringing about the Metropolitan Poor Law Act of 1867. However, his zeal for reform resulted in the president of the poor-law board removing him from office in1868, and he suffered similar consequences in 1872 as medical officer of the Westminster Infirmary but in this instance he was reinstated after his suspension. Rogers founded and was for some time president of the Poor Law Medical Officers Association and also helped to establish the Association for the Improvement of the Infirmaries of London Workhouses. His Reminiscences were published posthumously in 1889, the year of his death, edited and with a preface by his younger brother Thorold, an economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880-86 and who was recognised as an advocate of social justice.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192629500
Author : Michelle Higgs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834460
An “utterly brilliant” and deeply researched guide to the sights, smells, endless wonders, and profound changes of nineteenth century British history (Books Monthly, UK). Step into the past and experience the world of Victorian England, from clothing to cuisine, toilet arrangements to transport—and everything in between. A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England is “a brilliant guided tour of Charles Dickens’s and other eminent Victorian Englishmen’s England, with insights into where and where not to go, what type of people you’re likely to meet, and what sights and sounds to watch out for . . . Utterly brilliant!” (Books Monthly, UK). Like going back in time, Higgs’s book shows armchair travelers how to find the best seat on an omnibus, fasten a corset, deal with unwanted insects and vermin, get in and out of a vehicle while wearing a crinoline, and avoid catching an infectious disease. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book blends accurate historical details with compelling stories to bring alive the fascinating details of Victorian daily life. It is a must-read for seasoned social history fans, costume drama lovers, history students, and anyone with an interest in the nineteenth century.
Author : Greta Jones,Elizabeth Malcolm
Publisher : Cork University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Disease
ISBN : 1859181104
A pioneering collection of essays aiming to open up the previously neglected area of the social history of medicine in Ireland.
Author : Hilary Marland
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1987-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0521325757
This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and Huddersfield as contrasting types of northern towns, and examining in details their systems of medical care, Dr Marland has written a local history that says something important about the country as a whole. Wakefield and Huddersfield contrasted in their economic demographic and social development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, allowing an effective comparative analysis of medical facilities in the two communities. By drawing on diverse sources: from Poor Law and philanthropy to self-help organisations, fringe medicine and medical practice, the book places the development of medical services against the backdrop of the communities in which they evolved, their class structure, organization and social, civic and economic developments.
Author : M. Anne Crowther,Marguerite W. Dupree
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521835480
An unusual history of doctors - both male and female - trained in Britain in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Author : Joan Lane
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health
ISBN : 0415200385
Traces the development of medical practice from the Industrial Revolution to the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of source material, it charts the changing relationship between patient and practitioner.
Author : John V. Pickstone
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Hospital Planning
ISBN : 0719018099
Author : Peter Higginbotham
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752477190
This fascinating, fully illustrated volume is the definitive guide to every aspect of workhouse life. Compiled by Peter Higginbotham, one of Britain's foremost experts on the subject, it covers everything from the 1725 publication An Account of Several Workhouses to the South African Zulu admitted to Fulham Road Workhouse in 1880. With hundreds of fascinating anecdotes, plus priceless information for researchers including workhouse addresses, useful websites and archive repository details, maps, plans, original workhouse publications and an extensive bibliography, it will delight family historians and general readers alike.
Author : Steven King,Paul Carter,Natalie Carter,Peter Jones,Carol Beardmore
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228015369
Few subjects in European welfare history attract as much attention as the nineteenth-century English and Welsh New Poor Law. Its founding statute was considered the single most important piece of social legislation ever enacted, and at the same time, the coming of its institutions – from penny-pinching Boards of Guardians to the dreaded workhouse – has generally been viewed as a catastrophe for ordinary working people. Until now it has been impossible to know how the poor themselves felt about the New Poor Law and its measures, how they negotiated its terms, and how their interactions with the local and national state shifted and changed across the nineteenth century. In Their Own Write exposes this hidden history. Based on an unparalleled collection of first-hand testimony – pauper letters and witness statements interwoven with letters to newspapers and correspondence from poor law officials and advocates – the book reveals lives marked by hardship, deprivation, bureaucratic intransigence, parsimonious officialdom, and sometimes institutional cruelty, while also challenging the dominant view that the poor were powerless and lacked agency in these interactions. The testimonies collected in these pages clearly demonstrate that both the poor and their advocates were adept at navigating the new bureaucracy, holding local and national officials to account, and influencing the outcomes of relief negotiations for themselves and their communities. Fascinating and compelling, the stories presented in In Their Own Write amount to nothing less than a new history of welfare from below.
Author : David Hitchcock,Julia McClure
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351370998
The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vast edifices of compassion and coercion erected around them by individuals, institutions, and states. The essays chart critical new directions in poverty scholarship and connect poverty to the environment, debt and downward social mobility, material culture, empires, informal economies, disability, veterancy, and more. The volume contributes to the understanding of societal transformations across the early modern period, and places poverty and the poor at the centre of these transformations. It also argues for a wider definition of poverty in history which accounts for much more than economic and social circumstance and provides both analytically critical overviews and detailed case studies. By exploring poverty and the poor across early modern Europe, this study is essential reading for students and researchers of early modern society, economic history, state formation and empire, cultural representation, and mobility.
Author : Arthur Pearson Luff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503332469