Medicine, charity and mutual aid : the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Borsay, Anne, Shapely, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
Series:Historical urban studies.
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of 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.