Medicine, Charity and Mutual Aid (Historical Urban Studies)
Contributors: Anne Borsay (Editor); Peter Shapely (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
Published: May 7, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780754651482
Subjects: Charities & voluntary services; Health systems & services; Social history; Modern period, c 1500 onwards; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; Modern - General; Charities; Great Britain; Public welfare; Voluntarism
Description: Contributions include: 'Kinship and Welfare in Early Modern England: Sometimes Charity Begins at Home', 'Deaf Children and Charitable Education in Britain 1790-1944', 'Mental Health Charity for the Middling Sort: Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900' and 'The Politics of Voluntary Health Care in Middlesborough 1900-1948'.