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050	0	0	_aRA418.5.P6 _bM433 2013
082	0	0	_a362.1086/942 _223
245	0	0	_aMedicine and the workhouse / _cedited by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz.
246	3		_aMedicine & the Workhouse
264		1	_aSuffolk : _bBoydell & Brewer, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (vi, 281 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
505	0		_aContagion, exclusion, and the unique medical world of the eighteenth-century workhouse : London infirmaries in their widest relief / Kevin Siena -- The elderly in the eighteenth-century workhouse / Susannah Ottaway -- "These ANTE-CHAMBERS OF THE GRAVE"? : mortality, medicine, and the workhouse in Georgian London, 1725-1824 / Jeremy Boulton, Romola Davenport, and Leonard Schwarz -- Workhouse medical care from working-class autobiographies, 1750-1834 / Alannah Tomkins -- "A sad spectacle of hopeless mental degradation" : the management of the insane in West Midlands workhouses, 1815-60 / Leonard Smith -- Workhouse medicine in Ireland : a preliminary analysis, 1850-1914 / Virginia Crossman -- Exploring medical care in the nineteenth-century provincial workhouse : a view from Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz and Alistair Ritch -- "Immediate death or a life of torture are the consequences of the system" : the Bridgwater Union scandal and policy change / Samantha Shave -- Practitioners and paupers : medicine at the Leicester Union Workhouse, 1867-1905 / Angela Negrine -- Workhouse medicine in the British Caribbean, 1834-38 /Rita Pemberton -- Poverty, medicine, and the workhouse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries : an afterword / Steven King.
520			_aWhile the welfare functions of the workhouse have been well researched, its medical services have been comparatively neglected. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and despite much administrative reform, workhouse medicine remained central to the medical experiences of the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain, for example, far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, which have often been the subject of historical study, and, by the 1830s, most parishes possessed their own workhouses. 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 bee 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.
650		0	_aPoor _xMedical care _xHistory.
650		0	_aWorkhouses _xHistory.
700	1		_aReinarz, Jonathan, _eeditor.
700	1		_aSchwarz, Leonard, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781580464482
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