Oral History, Health and Welfare

Exploring a range of topics from birth control, midwifery and AIDS to geriatric medicine and learning disability,Oral History, Health and Welfarediscusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. By focussing on individual experiences, the human dimension of the history of medicine is explored. Oral history reveals the personal stories of innovation, policy shifts, training and treatment over a sixty year period of development, characterized by both continuity and change.

List of figures and tables

vii

List of contributors

viii

Introduction

1

(20)

Paul Thompson

Family and vocation: career choice and the life histories of general practitioners

21

(27)

Michael Bevan

The role of the community pharmacist in health and welfare 1911--1986

48

(27)

Stuart Anderson

Virginia Berridge

Recollections of the pioneers of the geriatric medicine specialty

75

(23)

Margot Jefferys

The last years of the workhouse, 1930--1965

98

(21)

John Adams

The contribution of professional education and training to becoming a midwife, 1938--1951

119

(20)

Maxine Rhodes

Recollections of life `on the district' in Scotland, 1940--1970

139

(20)

Rona Ferguson

Institutional abuse: memories of a `special' school for visually impaired girls -- a personal account

159

(21)

Sally French

John Swain

Oral history and the history of learning disability

180

(23)

Jan Walmsley

Dorothy Atkinson

The recipients' view of welfare

203

(24)

Elizabeth Roberts

HIV and Aids testimonies in the 1990s

227

(22)

Wendy Rickard

The delivery of birth control advice in South Wales between the wars

249

(21)

Kate Fisher

Midwives as `mid-husbands'? Midwives and fathers

270

(18)

Robin Dixon

The modern hospice movement: `bright lights sparkling' or `a bit of heaven for a few'?

288

(21)

Neil Small

Index

309

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