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Medicine and the Workhouse
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A high percentage of entries to workhouses consisted of the sick of all ages. In those communities where the elderly comprised the majority of workhouse inmates, most required medical relief. Perhaps inevitably, the position of workhouse doctor, or medical officer, became progressively more central to the management of these institutions, though we know very little about these overworked and undervalued practitioners. Historians of welfare, the English poor laws, 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 Old and New Poor Laws.
Jonathan Reinarz is director of the History of Medicine Unit at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published extensively on the history of English medical institutions, 1750-1950. Leonard Schwarz has recently retired as a reader in Urban History at the University of Birmingham, where he founded the Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
2013-10-01
Publication Date:
2013-10-01
Publisher:
University of Rochester Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1580464483
ISBN13:
9781580464482
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
574 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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