Disability and Social Policy in Britain Since 1750 A History of Exclusion

Name: Disability and Social Policy in Britain Since 1750 A History of Exclusion
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ISBN: 9780333912553

ISBN-10: 0333912551

ISBN-13: 9780333912553

Edition: 2005

Authors: Anne Borsay

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This approachable study explores experiences of physical and mental impairment in Britain since the Industrial Revolution. Using literary, visual and oral sources to complement documentary evidence, Anne Borsay pays particular attention to the testimonies of disabled people.

Book details

List price: $51.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 5/18/2017
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 8.27" wide x 11.69" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Illustrations


Foreword



Acknowledgements



Introduction


The challenge to modernity


The mixed economy of welfare


From civil to social rights


Measuring disability


Historiographies of disability


Economic rationality, power and resistance


Conclusion



Institutional Living



Workhouses


The old poor law


The new poor law


Workhouse environments


Workhouse conditions


The crusade against outdoor relief


From public assistance institutions to 'sunshine hotels'?


Disabled inmates


Conclusion



Hospitals


From charitable to state medicine


The eighteenth-century voluntary hospital


Orthopaedic medicine


Rehabilitation medicine


Geriatric medicine


Conclusion



Asylums


The rise of the asylum


Regulating asylum conditions


A 'dumping ground ... for physical and mental wrecks'?


'The triumph of legalism'?


The era of experimentation


Patients' perspectives


Conclusion



Schools


Blind and deaf institutions


'Idiot' asylums


The 'mental deficiency' colony


Special schools


The 1944 Education Act


Pupils' perspectives


Conclusion



Community Living



Work


The incidence of poverty


Segregated training and employment


The era of mass unemployment


The legacy of the Second World War


Conclusion



Financial relief


Mutual aid


Charitable assistance


The old poor law


The new poor law


The birth of national insurance


The Beveridge settlement


Conclusion



Community care


Special housing


Families, friends and neighbours


Community medical services


Community support services


The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act


Conclusion



Conclusion


Institutional living


Community living


Social policies since 1979


The relevance of history


Conclusion


Notes


Chronology of events


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