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.

Historical urban studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charities--Great Britain--History.

Charities.

Voluntarism--Great Britain--History.

Voluntarism.

Public welfare--Great Britain--History.

Public welfare.

Social service--Great Britain--History.

Social service.

Medical care--Great Britain--History.

Medical care.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book focuses on the recipients of charity, rather than the donors or institutions. By doing so, it tackles searching questions of social control and cohesion, and the relationship between providers and recipients in a new and revealing manner. It is shown how these issues changed over the course of the nineteenth century, as the frontier between state and the voluntary sector shifted away from charity towards greater reliance on public finance, workers' contributions and mutual aid. In turn, these new sources of assistance enriched civil society, encouraging democratization, empowerment a

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

The politics of voluntary health care in Middlesborough 1900-1948 / Barry Doyle

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-315-59469-2

1-317-09825-0

1-281-10423-X

9786611104238

0-7546-8426-1

9781315594699

OCLC:

317601643