Medicine and the Workhouse

by Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard David Schwarz

While the welfare functions of the workhouse have been well researched, its medical services have been comparatively neglected. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and despite much administrative reform, workhouse medicine remained central to the medical experiences of the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain, for example, far outnumbered beds provided by charitable hospitals, which have often been the subject of historical study, and,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464483
• ISBN13: 9781580464482
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"