Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g
Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Volume I: Convalescence and the Modern World
Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g
Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
ISBN: 978-1-032-77145-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
Across the nineteenth century, what counted as a beneficial medical intervention narrowed considerably. Diagnostic acts like listening to a patient’s heartbeat or performing a physical examination became the norm for medical doctors, while physical acts of care—such as feeding a patient or listening to her stories—were gradually relegated to realms outside of effective medical treatment. Yet Victorian thinkers worried that something was lost when hospitals and
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medical practitioners forsook these kinds of pragmatic and holistic practices of care. Thus many argued that such care had a vital—even life-saving—role after the acute phase of illness had passed. Convalescent care thus supplemented scientific medicine by supplying the kind of tailored, interpersonal caregiving that scientific medicine gradually abandoned. Convalescent, or post-acute care, began when a physician stopped seeing a patient daily, and it was generally supplied by experienced women, including professional nurses, philanthropic volunteers, familial caregivers, and servants. This volume thus introduces convalescence and its caregiving practices as a way to contextualize scientific medicine and its limitations in addressing the systemic ill-health of industrialization, urbanization, and imperial expansion.
Convalescent care was not merely about physical recovery. Time and again, contemporary thinkers link the benefits of convalescence to the mental rest provided by a period of post-acute relaxation. In fact, many experts saw convalescent leisure as a key antidote to the stressors of modern life itself. Contemporary medical patients, they reasoned, needed to recover not only from their specific disease or condition but also from the systemic stressors of overwork, urban pollution, social isolation, and mental exhaustion that characterized the industrial age. Indeed, this reasoning spawned a host of philanthropic convalescent homes that extended this seeming luxurious care to work-class patients. By exploring such a nexus of issues, this volume explores precisely how common life experiences like work, stress, mental strain, leisure, and social relationships were historically stripped out of the medical purview in ways that still have repercussions for today’s healthcare.
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Volume I. Convalescence and the Modern World
Series Editor Introduction
Acknowledgments
Introductory Essay for Volume I: ‘Convalescence and the Modern World’
Part 1: Interpersonal Caregiving vs. Scientific Medicine
1. J. Roberton, General Remarks on the Health of English Manufacturers: And on the Need which Exists for the Establishment of Convalescents' Retreats as Subservient to the Medical Charities of our Large Towns (London: J. Ridgway, 1831).
2. F. Nightingale, ‘Convalescence’, in Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes (London: Harrison, 1861), pp. 81–83.
3. C. Ryan, Convalescent Cookery: A Family Handbook (London: Chatto and Windus, 1881).
4. E. M. Worsnop, The Nurse’s Handbook of Cookery: A Help in Sickness and Convalescence (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1897).
5. A. Worthington Winthrop, ‘Bill of Fare for Convalescents’, in Diet in Illness and Convalescence (New York: Harper, 1899), pp. 243–246.
6. B. Clugston, ‘West of Scotland Convalescent Sea-Side Homes, Dunoon: Being a Short Account of Their Present Position and Capabilities of Extension and Use’, in Rules For the Constitution and Bye-Laws of the Glasgow Convalescent Home (Glasgow: Maclure and Macdonald, 1865–1871), pp. 3–24.
Part 2. Convalescent Homes and Philanthropic Care
7. F. Nightingale, ‘Convalescent Hospitals’, in Notes on Hospitals, 3rd edn, (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1863), pp. 107–116.
8. H. C. Burdett, Cottage Hospitals: General, Fever, and Convalescent, 2nd edn (London: Churchill, 1880).
9. R. Hillhouse, Reminiscences: Byegone Years of the West of Scotland Convalescent Seaside Homes, Dunoon (Glasgow: N.P., [1909?])
10. ‘Getting Better’, All The Year Round, 3:61 (29 January 1870), pp. 204–208.
11. ‘Convalescent Homes’, Ragged School Union Magazine (November 1872), pp. 241–47.
12. F. Arnold, ‘Convalescent Homes and Hospitals’, Good Words, 15 (December 1874), pp. 659–64.
13. ‘Convalescent Hospitals’, All The Year Round, 24:587 (28 February 1880), pp. 325–31.
14. ‘Convalescent Hospitals’, British Medical Journal, 2:203 (17 November 1860), pp. 900–01.
15. ‘Convalescents in the North-West of London’, British Medical Journal, 2:359 (16 November 1867), pp. 455–456.
16. ‘The Function of Convalescent Homes’, British Medical Journal, 2:615 (1872), p. 417.
17. ‘Opening of the Bristol Jubilee Convalescent Home’, British Medical Journal, 2:2029 (1899), pp. 1439–40.
18. Convalescent Home Architecture: Images
Part 3: Convalescence and Mental Health
3.1 Religious Devotionals
19. A. T. Gilbert, ‘Letter II’ and ‘Letter XI’ in The Convalescent: Twelve Letters on Recovery from Sickness (London: Jackson and Walford, 1839), pp. 8–14, 93–102.
20. R. Milman, ‘Dangers of Recovery, IV. V.’ in Convalescence: Thoughts for Those Who Are Recovering From Sickness (London: Whittaker, 1865) pp. 72–77.
21. P. Maurice, ‘Convalescence: Its Pleasures and its Trials’ in Sickness: Its Trials and Blessings (London: Rivingtons, 1868), pp. 271–282.
22. J. E. Hopkins, Sickbed Vows, and How to Keep them: A Book for Convalescents (London: J. Nisbet, 1869).
3.2 Asylums and Convalescence
23. H. Hawkins, ‘A Plea for Convalescent Homes in Connection with Asylums for the Insane Poor’, Journal of Mental Science, 17:77 (April 1871), pp. 107–16
24. H. Hawkins, ‘After Care’, Journal of Mental Science, 25:111 (October 1879), pp. 358–67.
3.3 Convalescent Autobiography
25. C. Lamb, ‘The Convalescent’, in The Last Essays of Elia: Being A Sequel to Essays Published Under That Name (London: Edward Moxon, 1833), pp. 70–77.
26. W. Collins, ‘Laid Up in Lodgings’, in My Miscellanies (London: Sampson Low, 1863), pp. 90–134.
27. G. Whyte-Melville, ‘A Week in Bed’, Fraser’s Magazine, 69:411 (March 1864), pp. 327–35.
28. W. E. Henley, ‘Convalescence’, Saturday Review, 44: 1145 (6 October 1877), pp. 417–18.
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