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

By Alistair Ritch
Hardcover
$130.00
By Alistair Ritch
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Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage.

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 the outbreak of Worl...

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