Parution - Medicine and the Workhouse

Parution - Medicine and the Workhouse Jonathan Reinarz & Leonard Schwarz (ed.), Medicine and the Workhouse, University of Rochester Press, 2013, 290 p. While the welfare functions of the workhouse have been well researched, its medical services have been comparatively neglected. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and despite much administrative reform, workhouse medicine remained central to the medical experiences of the poor. Workhouse beds in Britain, for example, far outn..