Ritch, Alistair (Author)
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 World War I. By closely analyzing the day-to-day practice of workhouse doctors and nurses, author Alistair Ritch questions the idea that medical care was invariably of poor quality and brought little benefit to patients. Medical staff in the workhouses labored under severe restraints and grappled with the immense health issues facing their patients. Sickness in the Workhouse brings to life this hidden group of workhouse staff and highlights their significance within the local health economy. Among other things, as the author notes, workhouses needed to provide medical care for nonpaupers, such as institutional isolation facilities for those with infectious diseases. This groundbreaking book highlights these doctors and nurses in order to illuminate our understanding of this significant yet little understood area of poor law history.
...MoreReview Eli O. Anders (2021) Review of "Sickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 359-360).
Review James Hanley (2021) Review of "Sickness in the Workhouse: Poor Law Medical Care in Provincial England, 1834-1914". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 209-212).
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