Medicine and the workhouse. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.
• Editors: Reinarz, Jonathan; Schwarz, Leonard
• Contents: Frontcover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part One: The Old Poor Law; 1 Contagion, Exclusion, and the Unique Medical World of the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse: London Infirmaries in Their Widest Relief; 2 The Elderly in the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse; 3 "These ANTE-CHAMBERS OF THE GRAVE"? Mortality, Medicine, and the Workhouse in Georgian London, 1725-1824; 4 Workhouse Medical Care from Working-Class Autobiographies, 1750-1834; 5 "A Sad Spectacle of Hopeless Mental Degradation": The Management of the Insane in West Midlands Workhouses, 1815-60; Part Two: The New Poor Law. 6 Workhouse Medicine in Ireland: A Preliminary Analysis, 1850-19147 Exploring Medical Care in the Nineteenth-Century Provincial Workhouse: A View from Birmingham; 8 "Immediate Death or a Life of Torture Are the Consequences of the System": The Bridgwater Union Scandal and Policy Change; 9 Practitioners and Paupers: Medicine at the Leicester Union Workhouse, 1867-1905; 10 Workhouse Medicine in the British Caribbean, 1834-38; 11 Poverty, Medicine, and the Workhouse in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Afterword; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index; Backcover.
• Publisher Details: Rochester Woodbridge : Unversity of Rochester Press Boydell & Brewer
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (vi, 281 pages)
• Subjects: 362.1086/942 610.9; Poor -- Medical care -- History; Workhouses -- History; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference; MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine; MEDICAL -- Atlases; MEDICAL -- Essays; MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice; MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine; MEDICAL -- Osteopathy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues; Poor -- Medical care; Workhouses; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781580468022; 1580468020; 1299981348; 9781299981348
• Related ISBNs: 9781580464482; 1580464483
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.