Charity and the London hospitals, 1850-1898

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Charity and the London hospitals, 1850-1898

Keir Waddington

(Royal Historical Society studies in history new series)

Royal Historical Society , Boydell Press, 2000

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Bibliographical references: p. 221-242

Includes index

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By 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 ninteenth century. Drawing on a comparative study of hospital records, the author investigates how and whyVictorians 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'etre, philanthropy's contribution was modified ata 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. Professor KEIR WADDINGTON teaches at Cardiff University.

目次

Introduction: philanthropy and the London hospitals The philanthropic imperative Paying for the sick poor Financial diversification: an explanation Charity and control: voluntarism and the management of the London hospitals Striving for influence: lay versus medical control State aid versus voluntarism Conclusion: 1898 and beyond

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