{"product_id":"charity-and-the-london-hospitals-keir-waddington-9780861933310","title":"Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898","description":"A study of the development of the hospital as a economic, medical and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy the 1890s Victorians assumed that London's hospitals were facing an endemic financial crisis which was so severe that some feared the state might have to intervene to support an ailing voluntary system: charity both underpinnedLondon's hospitals and proved insufficient to meet the ever-increasing cost of care, despite the ability of those running the hospitals to pick the pockets of the benevolent. Charity and the London Hospitals takes these themes to study the development of the hospital as an economic, medical, and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on a comparative study of hospital records, the author investigates how and why Victorians contributed to show that benevolence was rarely amenable to a single form or reason, moving on to argue that though it remained central to the hospitals' raison d'黎re, philanthropy's contribution was modified at a financial and administrative level as hospitals shifted from being philanthropic to medical institutions. Why this process occurred and the impact of professionalisation and scientific medicine are also assessed, as are the debates surrounding hospitals and the state at the end of the nineteenth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e KEIR WADDINGTON is Professor of History at Cardiff University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keir Waddington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0861933311\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780861933310\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Royal Historical Society\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.57d","brand":"Keir Waddington","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44652331860223,"sku":"9780861933310","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b59a92d2-299a-4597-b45d-e803fe9b7a4c.jpg?v=1704215587","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charity-and-the-london-hospitals-keir-waddington-9780861933310","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}