Author: George Munro SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A History of the Bristol Royal Infirmary
Author: George Munro SmithPatients, Power and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century Bristol
Author: Mary Elizabeth FissellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526937
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
In early modern England, housewives, clergymen, bloodletters, herb women, and patients told authoritative tales about the body. By the end of the eighteenth century, however, medicine had begun to drown out these voices. This book argues that changes in the relationship between rich and poor underlay this rise in medicine's authority.
A Short History of the Bristol General Hospital
Author: J. Odery SymesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A History of Bristol Medical School
Author: David J. CahillPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527580873
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This book is a well-referenced history of medicine and medical teaching in Bristol, with material on the development of individual hospitals and other providers of health care throughout the 18th to 21st centuries, and on teaching from the 16th century onwards. More material has been explored and included than previous histories on this topic, largely due to the accessibility of material on the internet, and the willingness of individuals to have their work digitised and made available. This book details the origins and development of the Bristol Medical School, from its beginnings to the present day. Of necessity, there is overlap and inclusion with the development of other educational institutions, some that succeeded (the University of the West of England) and some that did not (the Bristol College).
The Hospital
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospital care
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Vol. 14-41 have separately paged nursing section.
The Bookman
Author: The Making of Victorian England
Author: G. Kitson ClarkPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136124209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Based on the Ford Lectures, delivered at Oxford in 1960, the author describes some of the forces which created what we call `Victorian England'.
A History of the Worcester Royal Infirmary
Author: William H. McMenemeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
James Cowles Prichard's Anthropology
Author: H.F. AugsteinPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900433324X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The Bristol doctor James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848) has enjoyed a glowing reputation. Late Victorians regarded him as the founder of British anthropology and, in the twentieth century, he has been considered as a precursor of Darwin. Nowadays his name is cited mainly in context of inquiries into the rise of racial theories. Prichard's own theoretical goal was simple: the son of Quaker parents, he attempted to establish that the Bible provided a correct account of the earliest history of humankind; above all it was his aim to prove once and for all the doctrine of monogenesis: the unitary origins of mankind. He single-handedly charted the waters of the pre-Victorian human sciences. Philology, anthropology, mythology, Biblical criticism, the philosophy of the human mind, comparative anatomy, physiology, and practical medicine - Prichard mastered subjects so diverse that his learning may be called truly universal. His views have often been misrepresented, however, and his opposition to racial thinking in particular has been underestimated. This book, the first study dedicated exclusively to Prichard, explores his notions of man's place in nature and puts them in the context of contemporary European learning.
Mutualism and Health Care
Author: Martin GorskyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9781847792167
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Mutualism and health care, newly available in paperback, presents the first comprehensive account of a major innovation in hospital funding before the NHS. The voluntary hospitals, which provided the bulk of Britain's acute hospital services, diversified their financial base by establishing hospital contributory schemes. Through these, working people subscribed small, regular amounts to their local hospitals, in return for which they were eligible for free hospital care. The book evaluates the extent to which the schemes were successful in achieving comprehensive coverage of the population, funding hospital services, and broadening opportunities for participation in the governance of health care and for the expression of consumer views. It then explores why the option of funding the post-war NHS through mass contribution was rejected, and traces the transformation of the surviving schemes into health cash plans. This is a substantial investigation into the attractions and limitations of mutualism in health care. It is highly relevant to debates about organisational innovations in the delivery of welfare services.