Hanley / Meyer Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5489-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 44, 368 Seiten

Reihe: Social Histories of Medicine

This edited collection repositions the patient experience at the centre of healthcare histories and considers the contributions that such histories can make to debates over health policy and service delivery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanley, Anne

Meyer, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: searching for the patient – Anne Hanley and Jessica Meyer
Part I: Locating the patient: new approaches
1 The non-patient’s view – Michael Worboys
2 Family not to be informed? The ethical use of historical medical documentation – Jessica Meyer and Alexia Moncrieff
Part II: Voices from the institution
3 Lunatics’ rights activism in Britain and the German Empire, 1870–1920: a European perspective – Burkhart Brückner
4 Narrating and navigating patient experiences of farm work in English psychiatric institutions, 1845–1914 – Sarah Holland
5 The patient’s view as history from below: evidence from the Victorian poor, 1834–71 – Paul Carter and Steve King
Part III: User-driven medicine
6 Respiratory technologies and the co-production of breathing in the twentieth century – Coreen McGuire, Jaipreet Virdi and Jenny Hutton
7 The patient’s new clothes: British soldiers as complementary practitioners in the First World War – Georgia McWhinney
Part IV: Negotiating stigma and shame
8 ‘Dear Dr Kirkpatrick’: recovering Irish experiences of VD, 1924–47 – Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston
9 ‘I caught it and yours truly was very sorry for himself’: mapping the emotional worlds of British VD patients – Anne Hanley
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Hanley is a Lecturer in History of Science and Medicine at Birkbeck, University of London

Jessica Meyer is Associate Professor of Modern British History at the University of Leeds