Medicine, charity and mutual aid : the consumption of health and welfare in Britain, c.1550-1950 / / edited by Anne Borsay and Peter Shapely

• Pubblicazione: Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.94109/03
• Soggetto topico: Charities - Great Britain - History; Voluntarism - Great Britain - History; Public welfare - Great Britain - History; Social service - Great Britain - History; Medical care - Great Britain - History
• Altri autori: BorsayAnne ShapelyPeter
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- From common rights to cold charity : enclosure and poor allotments in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Sylvia Pinches -- Kinship and welfare in early modern England : sometimes charity begins at home / Sheila Cooper -- Deaf children and charitable education in Britain 1790-1944 / Anne Borsay -- Joseph Townend and the Manchester Infirmary : a plebeian patient in the industrial revolution / Stuart Hogarth -- Investigating the "deserving" poor : charity and the voluntary hospitals in nineteenth-century Birmingham / Jonathan Reinarz -- Choice and the children's hospital : Great Ormond Street Hospital patients and their families 1855-1900 / Andrea Tanner -- Mental health charity for the middling sort : Holloway Sanatorium 1885-1900 / Anne C. Shepherd -- Urban tuberculosis patients and sanatorium treatment in the early twentieth century / Flurin Condrau -- The politics of voluntary health care in Middlesborough 1900-1948 / Barry Doyle -- The co-operative men's guild, citizenship and the limits of mutual aid / Peter Shapely -- Retelling the stories of clients of voluntary social work agencies in Britain after 1945 / Pat Starkey.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book focuses on the recipients of charity, rather than the donors or institutions. By doing so, it tackles searching questions of social control and cohesion, and the relationship between providers and recipients in a new and revealing manner. It is shown how these issues changed over the course of the nineteenth century, as the frontier between state and the voluntary sector shifted away from charity towards greater reliance on public finance, workers' contributions and mutual aid. In turn, these new sources of assistance enriched civil society, encouraging democratization, empowerment a
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine, charity and mutual aid
• ISBN: 1-315-59469-2; 1-317-09825-0; 1-281-10423-X; 9786611104238; 0-7546-8426-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817245903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Historical urban studies.