Slumming
Subtitle: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 24, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9780691128009
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Poverty; Social classes; Human Sexuality; History; Psychology; History: World; London, Greater London; Europe - Great Britain - General; Sociology - Urban; European History; Gender Studies; History / Great Britain; Sociology
First sentence: IN THE SUMMER of 1865, the reform-minded medical journal the Lancet commissioned three doctors,led by Ernest Hart, to investigate the deplorable conditions of infirmaries attached to London's forty-three Poor Law Union Workhouses, those despised institutions of last resort for the indigent, the disabled, the aged, and the sick of the metropolis.