Medicine and industrial society : a history of hospital development in Manchester and its region, 1752-1946 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pickstone, John V
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; Dover, N.H., USA : Manchester University Press, [1985], ©1985
Manchester ; Dover, N.H., USA : c1985
Manchester, UK ; Dover, N.H., USA : c1985
Manchester, UK ; Dover, N.H., USA : c1985
Manchester, UK ; Dover, N.H., USA : [1985]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Small town ways and large town problems
  • Famine, fever, childbirth and the workhouse
  • Medical charities in the industrial city : Manchester, 1815-34
  • Medical charity and the Industrial Revolution in the textile towns
  • Medicine without charity : economism, medical services and the New Poor Law
  • Civic show or healing environments : Manchester hospitals in mid-century
  • Paternalism and the hospitals of the cotton towns
  • Infectious diseases and hospitals, 1860-1910
  • Sciences, specialists and capital : the modernisation of Manchester hospitals
  • Hospitals and welfare : paupers, consumptives, mothers and children
  • Pattern of hospital services in the 1930s
  • Manchester Joint Hospitals Advisory Board
  • Hospital service and the Second World War : actualities and plans
  • Ministry surveys and plans, 1942-5
  • Bevan and the new National Health Service