Oral History, Health and Welfare

Joanna Bornat, Robert Perks, Paul Thompson, Jan Walmsley (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

324 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-86825-0 (ISBN)

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This book discusses the significance of oral history to the development of health and welfare provisions. By focusing on individual experiences, the human dimensions of the history of medicine are explored.

Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. It includes discussion on:
* the end of the workhouse
* professional education and training of midwives
* HIV and Aids
* birth control
* the role of the community pharmacist
* pioneers of geriatric medicine
* oral history and the history of learning disability.

Joanna Bornat, Robert Perks, Paul Thompson, Jan Warmsley

List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Introduction, 1 Family and vocation: career choice and the life histories of general practitioners, 2 The role of the community pharmacist in health and welfare 1911–1986, 3 Recollections of the pioneers of the geriatric medicine specialty, 4 The last years of the workhouse, 1930–1965, 5 The contribution of professional education and training to becoming a midwife, 1938–1951, Recollections of life ‘on the district’ in Scotland, 1940–1970, 7 Institutional abuse: memories of a ‘special’ school for visually impaired girls—a personal account, 8 Oral history and the history of learning disability, 9 The recipients’ view of welfare, 10 HIV and Aids testimonies in the 1990s, 11 The delivery of birth control advice in South Wales between the wars, 12 Midwives as ‘mid-husbands’? Midwives and fathers, 13 The modern hospice movement: ‘bright lights sparkling’ or ‘a bit of heaven for a few’?, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.12.2014
Zusatzinfo	6 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	385 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-138-86825-6 / 1138868256
ISBN-13	978-1-138-86825-0 / 9781138868250
Zustand	Neuware