VICTORIAN BRITAIN 2000-2001[N.B.]

Health and Death

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Booklist:

R.Porter

Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860.

A.S.Wohl

Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain.

F.B.Smith

The People's Health 1830-1910.

C.Lawrence

Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920.

A.Bashford Purity and Pollution; Gender, Embodiment, and Victorian Medicine.

E.P.Hennock

'Urban Sanitary Reform a generation before Chadwick,' Economic History Review, (1957).

R.A.Lewis

Edwin Chadwick and the Public Health Movement, 1832-1854.

B.Keith-Lucas

'Some Influences affaceting the Development of Saniary Legislation in England,' Economic History Review (1954).

D.Sunderland 'A Monument to Defective Administration? The London Commissioners of Sewers in the Early Nineteenth Century,' Urban History (1999).

S.Halliday

The Great Stink of London; Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis.

T.Ferguson

'Public Health in Britain in the Climate of the Nineteenth Century,' Population Studies (1964).

S.Szreter

'Mortality and Public Health, 1815-1914,' A.Digby et. al. (eds.) New Directions in Economic and Social History, vol. II.

T.McKeown and R.G.Record 'Reasons for the Decline of Mortality in England and Wales during the Nineteenth Century,' Population Studies (1962).

B. Luckin and G. Mooney

‘Urban History and Historical Epidemiology; the Case of London, 1860-1920,’ Urban History (1997).

A.Briggs

'Cholera and Society in the Nineteenth Century', Past and Present (1961).

M.Pelling

Cholera, Fever, and English Medicine, 1825-1865.

F.Bynum

'Medical Values in a Commercial Age,' T.S.Smout (ed.) Victorian Values.

N.Williams

'The Implementation of Compulsory Health Legislation; Infant Smallpox Vaccination, 1840-1890,' Journal of Historical Geography (1994).

C.Hamlin

'Providence and Putrefaction: Victorian Sanitarians and the Natural Theology of Health and Disease', Vict. Studies (1985).

C.Hamlin

'Meddling in Bumbledom; On the Enormity of Large Sanitary Improvement in Four British Towns,' Victorian Studies (1988).

H.J.Smith

'Public Health on Tyneside 1850-1880,' N.McCord (ed.) Essays in Tyneside Labour History.

A.T.Skull

Museums of Madness: The Social Organisation of Insanity in Nineteenth Century England.

J.K.Walton

'Lunacy in the Industrial Revolution; A Study of Asylum Admissions in Lancashire, 1848-50', Jnl. of Social Hist. (1979).

A.S.Wohl

The Eternal Slum: Housing and Social Policy in Victorian London.

M.Wheeler

Death and the Future life in Victorian Literature and Theology.

R.Houlbrooke (ed.)

Death, Ritual and Bereavement.

D.James (ed.)

Undercliffe; Bradford's Historic Victorian Cemetery.

S.M.Barnard

To Prove I'm Not Forgot; Living and Dying in a Victorian City.

D.Vincent

'Love and Death and the Nineteenth Century Working Class,' Social History (1980).

 

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