Author: Kevin P. Siena
Edition: 1
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1580461484
Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's Foul Wards 1600-1800 (Rochester Studies in Medical History)
This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of the pox among the poor. Medical books Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban 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 Medical books Venereal Disease, Hospitals And The Urban Poor: London's "foul Wards", 1600-1800. author kevin patrick siena format paperback language english publication year 01 10 2010 series rochester studies in medical history subject medicine subject 2 medicine general title venereal disease hospitals and the urban poor london s foul wards 1600 1800 author siena kevin p publisher univ of rochester pr publication date oct 01 2010 pages 367 binding paperback edition reprint dimensions 6 00 wx 8 75 hx 0 75 d isbn 1580463711 subject science history description a re examination of the role
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Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor
Medical Book Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban 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.
