Medicine, charity and mutual aid : the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 / edited by Anne Borsay and Peter Shapely.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Borsay, Anne.

Shapely, Peter.

Series:

Historical urban studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charities--Great Britain--History.

Charities.

Voluntarism--Great Britain--History.

Voluntarism.

Public welfare--Great Britain--History.

Public welfare.

Medical care.

History.

Social service.

Great Britain.

Social service--Great Britain--History.

Medical care--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

x, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

'Pressed down by want and afflicted with poverty, wounded and maimed in war or worn down with age?' : cathedral almsmen in England 1538-1914 / Ian Atherton, Eileen McGrath and Alannah Tomkins

From common rights to cold charity : enclosure and poor allotments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sylvia Pinches

Kinship and welfare in early modern England : sometimes charity begins at home / Sheila Cooper

Deaf children and charitable education in Britain 1790-1944 / Anne Borsay

Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary : a plebeian patient in the industrial revolution / Stuart Hogarth

Investigating the 'deserving' poor : charity and the voluntary hospitals in nineteenth-century Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz

Choice and the children's hospital : Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and their families 1855-1900 / Andrea Tanner

Mental health charity for the middling sort : Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900 / Anne C. Shepherd

Urban tuberculosis patients and sanatorium treatment in the early twentieth century / Flurin Condrau

Power and accountability in the voluntary hospitals of Middlesborough 1900-1948 / Barry Doyle

The co-operative men's guild, citizenship and the limits of mutual aid 1911-1960 / Peter Shapely

Retelling the stories of clients of voluntary social work agencies in Britain after 1945 / Pat Starkey.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780754651482

0754651487

OCLC:

71812666