Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Institutions and Experiences
- 1 The Foul Disease, Privacy, and the Medical Marketplace
- 2 The Foul Disease in the Royal Hospitals: The Seventeenth Century
- 3 The Foul Disease in the Royal Hospitals: The Eighteenth Century
- 4 The Foul Disease and the Poor Law: Workhouse Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
- 5 The Foul Disease and Moral Reform? The Lock Hospital
- 6 Rethinking the Lock Hospital
- Conclusion: Poverty and the Pox in Early Modern London
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Institutions and Experiences
- 1 The Foul Disease, Privacy, and the Medical Marketplace
- 2 The Foul Disease in the Royal Hospitals: The Seventeenth Century
- 3 The Foul Disease in the Royal Hospitals: The Eighteenth Century
- 4 The Foul Disease and the Poor Law: Workhouse Medicine in the Eighteenth Century
- 5 The Foul Disease and Moral Reform? The Lock Hospital
- 6 Rethinking the Lock Hospital
- Conclusion: Poverty and the Pox in Early Modern London
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban PoorLondon's 'Foul Wards,' 1600-1800, pp. viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2004