The health of prisoners : : historical essays / / edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn.

• Superior document: The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Creese, Richard,; Bynum, W. F.,; Bearn, J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Ga. : : Rodopi,, 1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In eighteenth-century Britain, gaols were places of temporary confinement, where inmates stayed while awaiting punishment. With the rise of the 'penitentiary' from the early nineteenth century, custodial institutions housed prisoners for much longer periods of time. Prisoners were supposed...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Preface
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Howard’s Beginning: Prisons, Disease, Hygiene / Roy Porter
• Medical Treatment and Prisoners’ Health in Stafford Gaol during the Eighteenth Century / Anthony John Standley
• The Health of Prisoners and the Two Faces of Benthamism / Martin J. Wiener
• Development of the Prison Medical Service, 1774–1895 / Anne Hardy
• Elizabeth Fry and Mid-Nineteenth Century Reform / Anne Summers
• The Prison Medical Service and the Deviant 1895–1948 / Joe Sim
• Prison Doctors and Prison Suicide Research / Alison Liebling and Tony Ward
• Health Services for Prisoners: Lost in Ambiguities / Richard Smith
• The Criminal Lunatic Asylum System Before and After Broadmoor / Louis Blom-Cooper
• The Woolf Report and After / Stephen Tumim
• The Lessons of History / Stephen Shaw
• Index.