Medicine, charity and mutual aid
Subtitle: the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950
By: edited by Anne Borsay and Peter Shapely.
Contributors: Borsay, Anne.; Shapely, Peter.
Series: Historical urban studies
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780754651482
Subjects: Charities -- Great Britain -- History.; Public welfare -- Great Britain -- History.; Social service -- Great Britain -- History.; Medical care -- Great Britain -- History.; Voluntarism -- Great Britain -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: 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; value: From common rights to cold charity : enclosure and poor allotments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sylvia Pinches; value: Kinship and welfare in early modern England : sometimes charity begins at home / Sheila Cooper; value: Deaf children and charitable education in Britain 1790-1944 / Anne Borsay; value: Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary : a plebeian patient in the industrial revolution / Stuart Hogarth; value: Investigating the "deserving" poor : charity and the voluntary hospitals in nineteenth-century Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz; value: Choice and the children's hospital : Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and their families 1855-1900 / Andrea Tanner; value: Mental health charity for the middling sort : Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900 / Anne C. Shepherd; value: Urban tuberculosis patients and sanatorium treatment in the early twentieth century / Flurin Condrau; value: The politics of voluntary health care in Middlesborough 1900-1948 / Barry Doyle; value: The co-operative men's guild, citizenship and the limits of mutual aid / Peter Shapely; value: Retelling the stories of clients of voluntary social work agencies in Britain after 1945 / Pat Starkey.