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Sickness in the Workhouse
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Description
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.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
314
Release Date:
2019-11-01
Publication Date:
2019-11-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1580469752
ISBN13:
9781580469753
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Weight:
608 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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