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Medicine and the Workhouse (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
Jonathan Reinarz (Ed.)
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This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates wereelderly and infirm, needing not only accommodation and work but also medical relief. Historians of welfare, the English poor laws, and medicine have been aware of the importance of workhouse-based medicine, but the topic hasnot ... Read more
This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates wereelderly and infirm, needing not only accommodation and work but also medical relief. Historians of welfare, the English poor laws, and medicine have been aware of the importance of workhouse-based medicine, but the topic hasnot ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BOYE6
Number of pages
290
Condition
New
Number of Pages
290
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464482
SKU
V9781580464482
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Medicine and the Workhouse (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
This long overdue volume of essays moves beyond accounts of exclusively metropolitan experiences, drawing attention to the diverse experiences and policies that shaped medical relief at the regional or local levels and showing how, in words of one contributor, the workhouses were 'reluctant saviors at best.' The volume offers a coherent, up-to-date edited collection that will inform further research and ... Read more