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9780415191562

Oral History, Health and Welfare

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415191562

  • ISBN10:

    0415191564

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 11/2/1999
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Exploring a range of topics from birth control, midwifery and AIDS to geriatric medicine and learning disability,Oral History, Health and Welfarediscusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. By focussing on individual experiences, the human dimension of the history of medicine is explored. Oral history reveals the personal stories of innovation, policy shifts, training and treatment over a sixty year period of development, characterized by both continuity and change.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables
vii
List of contributors
viii
Introduction 1(20)
Paul Thompson
Family and vocation: career choice and the life histories of general practitioners
21(27)
Michael Bevan
The role of the community pharmacist in health and welfare 1911--1986
48(27)
Stuart Anderson
Virginia Berridge
Recollections of the pioneers of the geriatric medicine specialty
75(23)
Margot Jefferys
The last years of the workhouse, 1930--1965
98(21)
John Adams
The contribution of professional education and training to becoming a midwife, 1938--1951
119(20)
Maxine Rhodes
Recollections of life `on the district' in Scotland, 1940--1970
139(20)
Rona Ferguson
Institutional abuse: memories of a `special' school for visually impaired girls -- a personal account
159(21)
Sally French
John Swain
Oral history and the history of learning disability
180(23)
Jan Walmsley
Dorothy Atkinson
The recipients' view of welfare
203(24)
Elizabeth Roberts
HIV and Aids testimonies in the 1990s
227(22)
Wendy Rickard
The delivery of birth control advice in South Wales between the wars
249(21)
Kate Fisher
Midwives as `mid-husbands'? Midwives and fathers
270(18)
Robin Dixon
The modern hospice movement: `bright lights sparkling' or `a bit of heaven for a few'?
288(21)
Neil Small
Index 309

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