Medicine and the WorkhouseJonathan Reinarz, Leonard Schwarz This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries workhouses were a key provider of medical care to the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, and a high percentage of inmates wereelderly and infirm, needing not only accommodation and work but also medical relief. Contributors: Jeremy Boulton, Virginia Crossman, Romola Davenport, Steven King, Angela Negrine, Susannah Ottaway, Rita Pemberton, Jonathan Reinarz, Alistair Ritch, Leonard Schwarz, Samantha Shave, Kevin Siena, Leonard Smith, Alannah Tomkins. 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. |
Contents
The Old Poor | 17 |
The Elderly in the EighteenthCentury Workhouse | 40 |
These ANTECHAMBERS OF THE GRAVE? | 58 |
Workhouse Medical Care from WorkingClass | 86 |
Exploring Medical Care in the NineteenthCentury | 140 |
Immediate Death or a Life of Torture Are the Consequences | 164 |
Medicine at the Leicester | 192 |
Workhouse Medicine in the British Caribbean 183438 | 212 |
Poverty Medicine and the Workhouse in the Eighteenth | 228 |
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List of Contributors | 267 |