The Resource Medicine and the workhouse, edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz
Medicine and the workhouse, edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz
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The item Medicine and the workhouse, edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries.
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- Summary
- While the welfare functions of workhouses have been well researched, their medical services have been comparatively neglected. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, workhouse medicine remained central to the medical experiences of the poor. Historians of welfare and medicine have been aware of the importance of workhouse-based medical relief in the past, but the topic has not been studied in depth. This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by these welfare institutions, both in Britain and its former colonies, over the period covered by the Ol
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 281 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781580468022
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- Medicine and the workhouse
- Title
- Medicine and the workhouse
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz
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- Electronic books
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference
- History
- MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Atlases
- MEDICAL -- Essays
- MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Osteopathy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Poor -- Medical care
- Poor -- Medical care | History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues
- Workhouses
- Workhouses -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- While the welfare functions of workhouses have been well researched, their medical services have been comparatively neglected. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, workhouse medicine remained central to the medical experiences of the poor. Historians of welfare and medicine have been aware of the importance of workhouse-based medical relief in the past, but the topic has not been studied in depth. This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by these welfare institutions, both in Britain and its former colonies, over the period covered by the Ol
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- Reinarz, Jonathan
- Schwarz, Leonard
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- Rochester Studies in Medical History
- Series volume
- v. 27
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- Poor
- Workhouses
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- HEALTH & FITNESS
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- MEDICAL
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Poor
- Workhouses
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- Medicine and the workhouse, edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz
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- 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
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- ocn862103288
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- 1 online resource (vi, 281 pages)
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- 9781580468022
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- (OCoLC)862103288
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- Medicine and the workhouse, edited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz
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- online resource
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- cr
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- txt
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- Contents
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- 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
- Control code
- ocn862103288
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 281 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781580468022
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt31f4ct
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)862103288
Subject
- Electronic books
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism
- HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference
- History
- MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Atlases
- MEDICAL -- Essays
- MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice
- MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Osteopathy
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy | Social Services & Welfare
- Poor -- Medical care
- Poor -- Medical care | History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues
- Workhouses
- Workhouses -- History
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