Author: Sir D'Arcy PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A Short History of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1123-1923
Author: Sir D'Arcy PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Royal Hospital of Saint Bartholomew, 1123-1973
Author: Victor Cornelius MedveiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Notices of the Proceedings
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The Antiquaries Journal
Author: Notices of the Proceedings at the Meetings of the Members of the Royal Institution, with Abstracts of the Discourses
Author: Royal Institution of Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Bacteria in Britain, 1880–1939
Author: Rosemary WallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317319176
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Focusing on the years between the identification of bacteria and the production of antibiotic medicine, Wall presents a study into how bacteriology has affected both clinical practice and public knowledge.
Journal of the Royal Institute of Public Health; a Journal of Preventive Medicine
Author: Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-.
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
A History of Accident and Emergency Medicine, 1948-2004
Author: H. GulyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230000746
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Accident and emergency departments are the doorway to the hospital for acutely ill and injured patients. Whereas casualty departments have existed for over 150 years, they were often poorly staffed and managed. This book describes the fight to create a new medical specialty of accident and emergency medicine against much opposition from established specialties. The specialty was first recognised in 1972. The book also charts the major developments that occurred in the first 30 years of the specialty.
Venereal Disease, Hospitals, and the Urban Poor ; London's "foul Wards," 1600-1800
Author: Kevin Patrick SienaPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580461481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of the pox among the poor. Some have asserted that public authorities turned their backs on the "foul" and only began to offer care for venereal patients in the Enlightenment. An exploration of hospitals and workhouses shows a much more impressive public health response. London hospitals established "foul wards" at least as early as the mid-sixteenth century. Reconstruction of these wards shows that, far from banning paupers with the pox, hospitals made treating them one of their primary services. Not merely present in hospitals, venereal patients were omnipresent. Yet the "foul" comprised a unique category of patient. The sexual nature of their ailment guaranteed that they would be treated quite differently than all other patients. Class and gender informed patients' experiences in crucial ways. The shameful nature of the disease, and the gendered notion of shame itself, meant that men and women faced quite different circumstances. There emerged a gendered geography of London hospitals as men predominated in fee-charging hospitals, while sick women crowded into workhouses. Patients frequently desired to conceal their infection. This generated innovative services for elite patients who could buy medical privacy by hiring their own doctor. However, the public scrutiny that hospitalization demanded forced poor patients to be creative as they sought access to medical care that they could not afford. Thus, Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor offers new insights on patients' experiences of illness and on London's health care system itself. Kevin Siena is Assistant Professor of History at Trent University.