Patient Voices in Britain, 1840-1948 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526154880)

Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter's call for histories that incorporate patients' voices and experiences. But despite concerted methodological efforts, there has simply not been the degree and breadth of innovation that Porter envisaged. Patients' voices still often remain obscured. This has resulted in part from assumptions about the limitations of archives, many of which are formed of institutional records written from the perspective of health professionals. Patient voices in Britain repositions patient experiences at the centre of healthcare history, using new types of sources and reading familiar sources in new ways. Focusing on military medicine, Poor Law medicine, disability, psychiatry and sexual health, this collection encourages historians to tackle the ethical challenges of using archival material and to think more carefully about how their work might speak to persistent health inequalities and challenges in health-service delivery.

Author: Anne Hanley
ISBN-10: 1526154889
ISBN-13: 9781526154880
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/07/2021
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d