Poverty and sickness in modern Europe [[electronic resource] ] : narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938 / / edited by Andreas Gestrich, Elizabeth Hurren and Steven King

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.5094
• Soggetto topico: Poor - Health and hygiene - Europe - History; Sick - Europe - Economic conditions
• Altri autori: GestrichAndreas HurrenElizabeth KingSteven
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title 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 ; Conclusion: 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 ; Chapter 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 ; Post-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 ; Regulating 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 ; Sickness, inability to work and 'outside-help'
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Poverty and sickness in modern Europe
• ISBN: 1-282-13354-3; 9786613806123; 1-4411-6360-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779108603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II