Article ID: CBB000772502

“Because of Poverty Brought into Hospital: ...” A Casenote-Based Analysis of the Changing Role of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital, 1850--1912 (2007)

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Although the shift from a social to a medical function which occurred in nineteenth-century general hospitals has been explored, the occurrence of such a change in maternity hospitals has not been considered. Recent analyses of such institutions have examined particular aspects only, and thus give a somewhat static picture. This paper uses analysis of patient records (themselves an under-exploited resource) to explore the changing function of the Edinburgh Royal Maternity Hospital from a provider of shelter during childbirth to the destitute to a source of skilled medical care. It concludes that, although the Hospital had adopted the outward features of a medical institution by 1890, its casebooks suggest that its purpose only decisively changed in the early twentieth century, and thus can perhaps be more appropriately linked with national anxiety regarding the health of babies and their mothers. Keywords: Edinburgh; maternity hospitals; patients; personal health records; childbirth; casenotes; casebooks; maternal and child welfare

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Authors & Contributors
Nuttall, Alison
Appelquist, Malin
Maria Antonella Piga
Sehrawat, Samiksha
Deborah Sabrina Iannotti
Silvana Castaldi
Concepts
Medicine
Hospitals and clinics
Maternal health services
Childbirth
Case studies
Medicine and religion
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
Places
Edinburgh
Scotland
Canada
Great Britain
Dublin (Ireland)
Newfoundland (Canada)
Institutions
Mayo Clinic
Göttingen. Universität
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Royal College of Physicians of London
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