Sickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914

by Alistair Ritch

Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage.

England's New Poor Law (1834) transformed medical care in ways that have long been overlooked, or denigrated, by historians. Sickness in the Workhouse challenges these assumptions through a close examination of two urban workhouses in the west midlands from the passage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580469752
• ISBN13: 9781580469753
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"