This is the first book to examine the history of the medical services provided by workhouses, both in Britain and its former colonies, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Jonathan Reinarz, Leonard Schwarz

Introduction - Jonathan Reinarz and Leonard Schwarz
Contagion, Exclusion, and the Unique Medical World of the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse: London Infirmaries in Their Widest Relief - Kevin Siena
The Elderly in the Eighteenth-Century Workhouse - Susannah Ottoway
"These ANTE-CHAMBERS OF THE GRAVE"? Mortality, Medicine, and the Workhouse in Georgian London, 1725-1824 - Jeremy Boulton
"These ANTE-CHAMBERS OF THE GRAVE"? Mortality, Medicine, and the Workhouse in Georgian London, 1725-1824 - Romola Davenport
"These ANTE-CHAMBERS OF THE GRAVE"? Mortality, Medicine, and the Workhouse in Georgian London, 1725-1824 - Leonard Schwarz
Workhouse Medical Care from Working-Class Autobiographies, 1750-1834 - Alannah Tomkins
"A Sad Spectacle of Hopeless Mental Degradation": The Management of the Insane in West Midlands Workhouses, 1815-60 - Leonard Smith
Workhouse Medicine in Ireland: A Preliminary Analysis, 1850-1914 - Virginia Crossman
Exploring Medical Care in the Nineteenth-Century Provincial Workhouse: A View from Birmingham - Jonathan Reinarz
Exploring Medical Care in the Nineteenth-Century Provincial Workhouse: A View from Birmingham - Alistair Ritch
"Immediate Death or a Life of Torture Are the Consequences of the System": The Bridgwater Union Scandal and Policy Change - Samantha Shave
Practitioners and Paupers: Medicine at the Leicester Union Workhouse, 1867-1905 - Angela Negrine
Workhouse Medicine in the British Caribbean, 1834-38 - Rita Pemberton
Poverty, Medicine, and the Workhouse in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: An Afterword - K80169 King
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index