Poverty and sickness in modern Europe : narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938 /: narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King.
• Editors: Gestrich, Andreas; Hurren, Elizabeth T; King, Steven
• Contents: Title page; Copyright page; Contents; LIST OF Figures and Tables; Chapter 1: Narratives of poverty and sickness in Europe 1780-1938: Sources, methods and experiences; Introduction; European welfare contexts; Narratives of/about the poor: Problems of context, method and analysis; Thinking about the sick poor; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: Grief, sickness and emotions in the narratives of the shamefaced poor in late eighteenth-century Copenhagen; Introduction; The shamefaced poor and the public poor relief system; Relief and compassion for the sick shamefaced poor; Grief and sickness. Conclusion: Sickness and emotions as a social markerNotes; Chapter 3: 'Labouring on a bed of sickness': The material and rhetorical deployment of ill-health in male pauper letters; Introduction; Men and ill-health; Male pauper letters; Depression in male pauper letters; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: 'I have once more taken the Leberty to say as you well know': The development of rhetoric in the letters of the English, Welsh and Scottish sick and poor 1780s-1830s; Introduction; Rhetorical and strategic devices; Development of rhetoric in letter series; Conclusion; Notes. Chapter 5: Poverty and epidemics: Perceptions of the poor at times of Cholera in Germany and Spain, 1830s-1860sIntroduction; Aachen and Cologne; Barcelona; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Living with insanity: Narratives of poverty, pauperism and sickness in asylum records 1840-76; Introduction; Family circumstances and the 'insane' at home; Institutionalization of the insane; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Narratives of poverty in Irish suicides between the Great Famine and the First World War, 1845-1914; Introduction; Suicide during the Famine. Post-Famine: Family, 'Friends' and the importance of social supportFinancial difficulties, anxiety and the 'revolution of rising expectations'; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: Stories of care and coercion: Narratives of poverty and suffering among patients with venereal disease in Sweden, 1860-1920; Introduction; Venereal disease as an historical problem; Early measures against venereal disease: Enhancing the state of the population; Venereal disease among the agrarian poor: Early nineteenth-century social narratives. Regulating the urban poor -- measures against venereal disease in the second half of the nineteenth centurySocial narratives of the urban immoral -- caring and coercing; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: From unemployment to sickness and poverty: The narratives and experiences of the unemployed in Trier and surroundings, 1918-33; Introduction -- the 'welfare unemployed'1; The 'place' of the unemployed within local poor relief; Welfare practices in rural regions; From unemployment to sickness; Narratives of sickness and poverty -- sickness in the negotiating process.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum International Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 2012
• Copyright Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (224 pages)
• Subjects: 362.5094; Poor -- Europe -- History -- Personal narratives; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Poverty & Homelessness; Poor; Europe; Electronic books; History; Personal narratives
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441163608; 1441163603; 9781441184818; 1441184813
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