Sickness, Medical Welfare and the English Poor, 1750-1834

Informationen zum Autor Steven King is Lecturer in History at Oxford Brookes University Klappentext This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations, I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare. Zusammenfassung This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations! I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Locating sickness and medical welfare 1. The ecology of poor relief2. Defining and measuring 3. Negotiating medical welfare Part II: The scale and character of medical welfare 4 Treating the sick poor: a quantitative overview5 Medical People6 Wider medical welfare7 Dying, being buried and leaving people behind Part III: Parochial medical welfare in context 8 Institutions and the sick poor 9 The medical economy of makeshifts10 Making sense of diversityAppendixBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Steve King, Steven King
• Assisted by: David Cantor (Editor), Keir Waddington (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781526129000
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2900-0
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Social Histories of Medicine; Social Histories of Medicine M; Social Histories of Medicine
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General