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, avoid brain work, and re-gather their energies in the safety of the home that social commentators and medical authorities assumed was their ‘natural space ’.17 For middle-class men, by contrast, hard work ...
in Victorian England In 1792, the Middlesex Hospital in London established a ward dedicated to the care of cancer.18 From the outset, the hospital staff conceptualised cancer as an integrative category ...
Spaces : Workhouse , Hospital and Home in Mid - Victorian London ,” Social Science History 33 (2009): 357-90. 3 Judith Walzer Leavitt, “Medicine in Context: A Review Essay of the History of Medicine,” American ...
and discharge data, and other documents like letters, reports and inventories, to highlight the continuation of relationships between institution and outside world or home , the role families played in admissions ...
nourished bodies most efficiently at the least cost. As a result of their efforts, British institutional dietaries, including the fare of workhouses , prisons, and hospitals , were reevaluated and reshaped ...
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