1st Edition
To Do The Sick No Harm A Study of the British Voluntary Hospital System to 1875
1.Medical Care and Social Policy 2. To Prove A Need 3. Philanthropy or Social Enhancement 4. Hospital Staff 5. Admissions Policy 6. On the Books 7. Fever Cases 8. Surgery 9. Hospital Diseases 10. Gateways to Death? 11. Hospitals and Population Growth Appendix 1: The Voluntary Hospitals of the Eighteenth Century Appendix 2: An Account of the Establishment of the County Hospital at Winchester Appendix 3: Mortality in Selected Voluntary Hospitals to 1875 Appendix 4: Summary of Patients Admitted to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, 1800–70 Appendix 5: Cases Admitted to the Newcastle and Manchester Infirmaries in the 1750s Appendix 6: A Comparison of the Mortality Rates Presented by Florence Nightingale and Fleetwood Buckle Appendix 7: Surgical Operations, 1863 Appendix 8: Deaths from Pyaemia.
Biography
John Woodward
‘In the hands of John Woodward, the early history of the British hospital comes alive.’ Malcolm Johnson, Journal of Social Policy, Volume 6, Issue 1, (1977).
