Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. It includes discussion on:
* the end of the workhouse
* professional education and training of midwives
* HIV and Aids
* birth control
* the role of the community pharmacist
* pioneers of geriatric medicine
* oral history and the history of learning disability.
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'Not only is the vigour of the topic apparent but also the depth and breadth of the scholarship involved in the field.' - Lesley Diack,Oral History Reader
`This is a refreshing volume which, by combining the history of medicine and oral history, produces an eclectic mix that is both exciting and challenging.' - Graham Smith, University of Glasgow, Social History of Medicine, 2001
List of figures and tables, List of contributors, Introduction, 1 Family
and vocation: career choice and the life histories of general practitioners,
2 The role of the community pharmacist in health and welfare 19111986, 3
Recollections of the pioneers of the geriatric medicine specialty, 4 The last
years of the workhouse, 19301965, 5 The contribution of professional
education and training to becoming a midwife, 19381951, Recollections of
life on the district in Scotland, 19401970, 7 Institutional abuse:
memories of a special school for visually impaired girlsa personal
account, 8 Oral history and the history of learning disability, 9 The
recipients view of welfare, 10 HIV and Aids testimonies in the 1990s, 11 The
delivery of birth control advice in South Wales between the wars, 12 Midwives
as mid-husbands? Midwives and fathers, 13 The modern hospice movement:
bright lights sparkling or a bit of heaven for a few?, Index
Joanna Bornat, Robert Perks, Paul Thompson, Jan Warmsley
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