Anne Borsay
Ashgate
Hardback
498
1999
Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath which was founded in 1739 to grant 'lepers and cripples and other indigent strangers' access to the spa waters. Four main themes are pursued in order to locate the hospital within its economic socio-cultural and political contexts: arrangements for management and finance under the conditions of a prospering commercial economy the rewards and restrictions experienced by the physicians and surgeons who donated their professional services free of charge the changing moral economy of charitable donors and recipients and the construction of an integrated social and political ?lite around the physical and moral rehabilitation of the sick poor.
Ashgate
Hardback
498
1999
Medicine and Charity in Georgian Bath offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath which was founded in 1739 to grant 'lepers and cripples and other indigent strangers' access to the spa waters. Four main themes are pursued in order to locate the hospital within its economic socio-cultural and political contexts: arrangements for management and finance under the conditions of a prospering commercial economy the rewards and restrictions experienced by the physicians and surgeons who donated their professional services free of charge the changing moral economy of charitable donors and recipients and the construction of an integrated social and political ?lite around the physical and moral rehabilitation of the sick poor.