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Author: Keir Waddington Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 9780861932467 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Author: Keir Waddington Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd ISBN: 9780861932467 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Author: Kevin Patrick Siena Publisher: University Rochester Press ISBN: 9781580461481 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 392
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"This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of the pox among the poor. Some have asserted that public authorities turned their backs on the "foul" and only began to offer care for venereal patients in the Enlightenment. An exploration of hospitals and workhouses shows a much more impressive public health response. London hospitals established "foul wards" at least as early as the mid-sixteenth century. Reconstruction of these wards shows that, far from banning paupers with the pox, hospitals made treating them one of their primary services. Not merely present in hospitals, venereal patients were omnipresent. Yet the "foul" comprised a unique category of patient. The sexual nature of their ailment guaranteed that they would be treated quite differently than all other patients. Class and gender informed patients' experiences in crucial ways. The shameful nature of the disease, and the gendered notion of shame itself, meant that men and women faced quite different circumstances. There emerged a gendered geography of London hospitals as men predominated in fee-charging hospitals, while sick women crowded into workhouses. Patients frequently desired to conceal their infection. This generated innovative services for elite patients who could buy medical privacy by hiring their own doctor. However, the public scrutiny that hospitalization demanded forced poor patients to be creative as they sought access to medical care that they could not afford. Thus, Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor offers new insights on patients' experiences of illness and on London's health care system itself."--Jacket.
Author: Keir Waddington Publisher: Royal Historical Society Studies in History ISBN: 9780861933310 Category : Hospitals Languages : en Pages : 264
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A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Author: Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 144113168X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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This volume seeks to address the questions of poverty, charity, and public welfare, taking the nineteenth-century London Foundling Hospital as its focus. It delineates the social rules that constructed the gendered world of the Victorian age, and uses 'respectability' as a factor for analysis: the women who successfully petitioned the Foundling Hospital for admission of their infants were not East End prostitutes, but rather unmarried women, often domestic servants, determined to maintain social respectability. The administrators of the Foundling Hospital reviewed over two hundred petitions annually; deliberated on about one hundred cases; and accepted not more than 25 per cent of all cases. Using primary material from the Foundling Hospital's extensive archives, this study moves methodically from the broad social and geographical context of London and the Foundling Hospital itself, to the micro-historical case data of individual mothers and infants.
Author: Keir Waddington
Author: Keir Waddington
Author: Cliff Webb
Author: Kevin Patrick Siena
Author: Keir Waddington
Author: sir Henry Charles Burdett
Author: Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen
Author: Hospitals (LONDON)
Author: John Robert Sullivan
Author: Veronika Chambers
Author: London General Omnibus Company, ltd