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Lockhart, Judith (2008) Women, health and hospitals in Birmingham : the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, 1871-1948. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This study considers the social history of the Birmingham and Midland
Hospitals for Women Incorporated between 1871 and 1948. The hospitals
were an integral part of the voluntary hospital system in Birmingham, where
two general infirmaries and a range of smaller specialist institutions had been
set up to deal with the health care needs of a growing population during the
period of industrialization. Two underlying historiographical themes are
discussed throughout the thesis; the motivation of those that founded and
supported such institutions and the feminist critique of the developments in
the practice of gynaecology. Much of the current literature on women's health
in this period concentrates on the underlying ideology rather than health care.
Here the emphasis is reversed; it is to the medical care and treatment of
diseases associated with women's sexual and reproductive organs that this
thesis is directed. I have adopted a broadly chronological approach, with
Chapters 1 to 4 exploring the founding of the hospital in 1871 and the
important early years during which it became established. Chapters 5 to 7
consider developments during the Edwardian period and the inter-war years.
In the organization of the individual chapters I have adopted a thematic
approach considering the association that different group of people had with
the hospital; the governors, medical staff and patients, both within the context
of their health care and the lives and circumstances of working-class women
in the wider sense. To provide an analytical framework for this study, the
dominant historiographical paradigms in the field of women's health are
discussed in the introduction to this thesis.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women -- History, Hospitals -- Great Britain -- Birmingham -- History -- 19th century, Hospitals -- Great Britain -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century, Women's health services -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century, Women's health services -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | ||||
Official Date: | June 2008 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of History | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Marland, Hilary | ||||
Extent: | iii, 341 leaves | ||||
Language: | eng |
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