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

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 of the New Poor Law until...

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Main Author: Ritch, Alistair (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : Woodbridge [England] : University of Rochester Press ; Boydell & Brewer Limited, 2019.
Series:Rochester studies in medical history.
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