The health of prisoners : historical essays / edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Creese, Richard, editor.

Bynum, W. F., editor.

Bearn, J., editor.

Series:

Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.

The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Great Britain--Congresses.

Prisoners.

Prisons--Great Britain--Congresses.

Prisons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Brill | Rodopi 1995

Amsterdam ; Atlanta, Ga. : Rodopi, 1995.

Summary:

In eighteenth-century Britain, gaols were places of temporary confinement, where inmates stayed while awaiting punishment. With the rise of the 'penitentiary' from the early nineteenth century, custodial institutions housed prisoners for much longer periods of time. Prisoners were supposed to be reformed as well as punished during their incarceration. From at least the time of John Howard (1726-1790), the health of prisoners has been part of the concern of philanthropists and others concerned with the wider functions of prisons. The Victorians established a Prison Medical Service, and members of the medical profession have long been involved in caring for the mental and physical needs of prisoners. For two centuries, prison overcrowding has been identified as a major cause of mortality and morbidity in prisons. Historical debates thus often have a modern ring to them, which make the essays in this volume particularly timely.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Howard’s Beginning: Prisons, Disease, Hygiene / Roy Porter

Medical Treatment and Prisoners’ Health in Stafford Gaol during the Eighteenth Century / Anthony John Standley

The Health of Prisoners and the Two Faces of Benthamism / Martin J. Wiener

Development of the Prison Medical Service, 1774–1895 / Anne Hardy

Elizabeth Fry and Mid-Nineteenth Century Reform / Anne Summers

The Prison Medical Service and the Deviant 1895–1948 / Joe Sim

Prison Doctors and Prison Suicide Research / Alison Liebling and Tony Ward

Health Services for Prisoners: Lost in Ambiguities / Richard Smith

The Criminal Lunatic Asylum System Before and After Broadmoor / Louis Blom-Cooper

The Woolf Report and After / Stephen Tumim

The Lessons of History / Stephen Shaw

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-41843-1

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004418431 DOI