Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834
At the core of this book are three central contentions: That medical welfare became the totemic function of the Old Poor Law in its last few decades; that the poor themselves were able to negotiate this medical welfare rather than simply being subject to it; and that being doctored and institutionalised became part of the norm for the sick poor by the 1820s, in a way that had not been the case in the 1750s. Exploring the lives and medical experiences of the poor largely in their own words, Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the so-called crisis of the Old Poor Law from the later eighteent…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5261-2902-4
- EAN: 9781526129024
- Produktnummer: 32341459
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 408 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'030 KB
- Abbildungen: 1 black & white illustration, 12 graphs, 2 maps
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Steven King is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Leicester
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