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• catalog abstract ""This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of the pox among the poor. Some have asserted that public authorities turned their backs on the "foul" and only began to offer care for venereal patients in the Enlightenment. An exploration of hospitals and workhouses shows a much more impressive public health response. London hospitals established "foul wards" at least as early as the mid-sixteenth century. Reconstruction of these wards shows that, far from banning paupers with the pox, hospitals made treating them one of their primary services. Not merely present in hospitals, venereal patients were omnipresent. Yet the "foul" comprised a unique category of patient. The sexual nature of their ailment guaranteed that they would be treated quite differently than all other patients. Class and gender informed patients' experiences in crucial ways. The shameful nature of the disease, and the gendered notion of shame itself, meant that men and women faced quite different circumstances. There emerged a gendered geography of London hospitals as men predominated in fee-charging hospitals, while sick women crowded into workhouses. Patients frequently desired to conceal their infection. This generated innovative services for elite patients who could buy medical privacy by hiring their own doctor. However, the public scrutiny that hospitalization demanded forced poor patients to be creative as they sought access to medical care that they could not afford. Thus, Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor offers new insights on patients' experiences of illness and on London's health care system itself."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13217870.
• catalog coverage "London".
• catalog created "2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
• catalog description ""This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of the pox among the poor. Some have asserted that public authorities turned their backs on the "foul" and only began to offer care for venereal patients in the Enlightenment. An exploration of hospitals and workhouses shows a much more impressive public health response. London hospitals established "foul wards" at least as early as the mid-sixteenth century. Reconstruction of these wards shows that, far from banning paupers with the pox, hospitals made treating them one of their primary services. Not merely present in hospitals, venereal patients were omnipresent. Yet the "foul" comprised a unique category of patient. The sexual nature of their ailment guaranteed that they would be treated quite differently than all other patients. Class and gender informed patients' experiences in crucial ways. The shameful nature of the disease, and the gendered notion of shame itself, meant that men and women faced quite different circumstances. There emerged a gendered geography of London hospitals as men predominated in fee-charging hospitals, while sick women crowded into workhouses. Patients frequently desired to conceal their infection. This generated innovative services for elite patients who could buy medical privacy by hiring their own doctor. However, the public scrutiny that hospitalization demanded forced poor patients to be creative as they sought access to medical care that they could not afford. Thus, Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor offers new insights on patients' experiences of illness and on London's health care system itself."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-360) and index.".
• catalog description "The foul disease, privacy, and the medical marketplace -- The foul disease in the royal hospitals: the seventeenth century -- The foul disease in the royal hospitals: the eighteenth century -- The foul disease and the Poor Law: workhouse medicine in the eighteenth century -- The foul disease and moral reform? the Lock Hospital -- Rethinking the Lock Hospital -- Conclusion: poverty and the pox in early modern London.".
• catalog extent "viii, 367 p. :".
• catalog identifier "1580461484 (hardcover : alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Rochester studies in medical history, 1526-2715".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. : Boydell & Brewer,".
• catalog spatial "England London".
• catalog spatial "London".
• catalog spatial "London.".
• catalog subject "362.196/951/00942109032 22".
• catalog subject "History, 17th Century London.".
• catalog subject "History, 17th Century".
• catalog subject "History, 18th Century London.".
• catalog subject "History, 18th Century".
• catalog subject "Poor Health and hygiene England London History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Poor Health and hygiene England London History 18th century.".
• catalog subject "RA644.V4 S495 2004".
• catalog subject "Sexually Transmitted Diseases London History.".
• catalog subject "Sexually Transmitted Diseases history".
• catalog subject "Sexually transmitted diseases England London History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Sexually transmitted diseases England London History 18th century.".
• catalog subject "Urban Health Services London History.".
• catalog subject "Urban Health Services history".
• catalog subject "Urban poor Health and hygiene England London History 17th century.".
• catalog subject "Urban poor Health and hygiene England London History 18th century.".
• catalog subject "WC 11 FE5 S572v 2004".
• catalog tableOfContents "The foul disease, privacy, and the medical marketplace -- The foul disease in the royal hospitals: the seventeenth century -- The foul disease in the royal hospitals: the eighteenth century -- The foul disease and the Poor Law: workhouse medicine in the eighteenth century -- The foul disease and moral reform? the Lock Hospital -- Rethinking the Lock Hospital -- Conclusion: poverty and the pox in early modern London.".
• catalog title "Venereal disease, hospitals, and the urban poor ; London's "foul wards," 1600-1800 / Kevin P. Siena.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".