LEADER 05146nam 2200565 a 450 001 9910452633703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-13354-3 010 $a9786613806123 010 $a1-4411-6360-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000107509 035 $a(EBL)967755 035 $a(OCoLC)799766051 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC967755 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL967755 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10579567 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL380612 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000107509 100 $a20120723d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 00$aPoverty and sickness in modern Europe$b[electronic resource] $enarratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938 /$fedited by Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cContinuum$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4411-1081-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTitle page; Copyright page; Contents; LIST OF Figures and Tables; Chapter 1: Narratives of poverty and sickness in Europe 1780-1938: Sources, methods and experiences; Introduction; European welfare contexts; Narratives of/about the poor: Problems of context, method and analysis; Thinking about the sick poor; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2: Grief, sickness and emotions in the narratives of the shamefaced poor in late eighteenth-century Copenhagen; Introduction; The shamefaced poor and the public poor relief system; Relief and compassion for the sick shamefaced poor; Grief and sickness 327 $aConclusion: Sickness and emotions as a social markerNotes; Chapter 3: 'Labouring on a bed of sickness': The material and rhetorical deployment of ill-health in male pauper letters; Introduction; Men and ill-health; Male pauper letters; Depression in male pauper letters; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4: 'I have once more taken the Leberty to say as you well know': The development of rhetoric in the letters of the English, Welsh and Scottish sick and poor 1780s-1830s; Introduction; Rhetorical and strategic devices; Development of rhetoric in letter series; Conclusion; Notes 327 $aChapter 5: Poverty and epidemics: Perceptions of the poor at times of Cholera in Germany and Spain, 1830s-1860sIntroduction; Aachen and Cologne; Barcelona; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 6: Living with insanity: Narratives of poverty, pauperism and sickness in asylum records 1840-76; Introduction; Family circumstances and the 'insane' at home; Institutionalization of the insane; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7: Narratives of poverty in Irish suicides between the Great Famine and the First World War, 1845-1914; Introduction; Suicide during the Famine 327 $aPost-Famine: Family, 'Friends' and the importance of social supportFinancial difficulties, anxiety and the 'revolution of rising expectations'; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 8: Stories of care and coercion: Narratives of poverty and suffering among patients with venereal disease in Sweden, 1860-1920; Introduction; Venereal disease as an historical problem; Early measures against venereal disease: Enhancing the state of the population; Venereal disease among the agrarian poor: Early nineteenth-century social narratives 327 $aRegulating the urban poor - measures against venereal disease in the second half of the nineteenth centurySocial narratives of the urban immoral - caring and coercing; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 9: From unemployment to sickness and poverty: The narratives and experiences of the unemployed in Trier and surroundings, 1918-33; Introduction - the 'welfare unemployed'1; The 'place' of the unemployed within local poor relief; Welfare practices in rural regions; From unemployment to sickness; Narratives of sickness and poverty - sickness in the negotiating process 327 $aSickness, inability to work and 'outside-help' 330 $aThis book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare systems operated. By foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central 606 $aPoor$xHealth and hygiene$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aSick$zEurope$xEconomic conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoor$xHealth and hygiene$xHistory. 615 0$aSick$xEconomic conditions. 676 $a362.5094 701 $aGestrich$b Andreas$0500315 701 $aHurren$b Elizabeth$0988652 701 $aKing$b Steven$094041 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452633703321 996 $aPoverty and sickness in modern Europe$92260660 997 $aUNINA