Sickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914
(Part of the Rochester Studies in Medical History Series)
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Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage. England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1580469752
ISBN13:9781580469753
Release Date:November 2019
Publisher:University of Rochester Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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