TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Steven
TI  - Sickness, medical welfare and the English poor, 1750-1834 /Steven King
T2  - Social histories of medicine
SN  - 9781526129017
AV  - RA418 .S535 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Manchester, Michigan
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Poor
KW  - Medical care
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Front matter; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Part I Locating sickness and medical welfare; The ecology of poor relief; Defining and measuring; Negotiating medical welfare; Part II The scale and character of medical welfare; Treating the sick poor: a quantitative overview; Medical people; Wider medical welfare; Dying, being buried and leaving people behind; Part III Parochial medical welfare in context; Institutions and the sick poor; The medical economy of makeshifts; Making sense of diversity; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - This book explores the medical world of the poor and the Old Poor Law in the period 1750-1834. Encountering the sick poor in their own words and everyday situations, I offer a new and more positive view of English welfare
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