The Health of Prisoners

Historical Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-90-5183-869-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

Reihe: Clio Medica

In eighteenth-century Britain, gaols were places of temporary confinement, where inmates stayed while awaiting punishment. With the rise of the 'penitentiary' from the early nineteenth century, custodial institutions housed prisoners for much longer periods of time. Prisoners were supposed to be reformed as well as punished during their incarceration. From at least the time of John Howard (1726-1790), the health of prisoners has been part of the concern of philanthropists and others concerned with the wider functions of prisons. The Victorians established a Prison Medical Service, and members of the medical profession have long been involved in caring for the mental and physical needs of prisoners. For two centuries, prison overcrowding has been identified as a major cause of mortality and morbidity in prisons. Historical debates thus often have a modern ring to them, which make the essays in this volume particularly timely.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Creese, Richard

Bynum, Wm. Randolph

Bearn, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1. Howard's Beginning: Prisons, Disease, Hygiene

Roy PORTER

2. Medical Treatment and Prisoners' Health in Stafford Gaol during the Eighteenth Century

A.J. STANDLEY

3. The Health of Prisoners and the Two Faces of Benthamism

Martin J. WIENER

4. Development of the Prison Medical Service, 1774-1895

Anne HARDY

5. Elizabeth Fry: and Mid-Nineteenth Century Reform

Anne SUMMERS

6. The Prison Medical Service and the Deviant 1895-1948

Joe SIM

7. Prison Doctors and Prison Suicide Research

Alison LIEBLING and Tony WARD

8. Health Services for Prisoners: Lost in Ambiguities

Richard SMITH

9. The Criminal Lunatic Asylum System Before and After Broadmoor

Sir Louis BLOM-COOPER

10. The Woolf Report and After

Stephen TUMIM

11.The Lessons of History

Stephen SHAW

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Creese was Professor of Physiology at St. Mary's hospital Medical School from 1968 to 1982. He was President of the Section of the History of Medicine of the Royal Society of Medicine during 1992-1993.

W.F. Bynum is Director of the Academic Unit at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and Professor of History of Medicine in the University of London. He is general Editor of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine Series (with Roy Porter) and, since 1980, has been co- Editor of the quarterly journal Medical History.

Joe Bean is a former Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at The Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He was Vice-President of the Section of the History of Medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine 1979-1982.