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Anne Hanley, Jessica Meyer - Patient Voices in Britain, 1840–1948, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Patient Voices in Britain, 1840–1948

Av Anne Hanley, Jessica Meyer

Del 44 i serien Social Histories of Medicine

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Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter’s call for histories that incorporate patients’ voices and experiences. But despite concerted methodological efforts, there has simply not been the degree and breadth of innovation that Porter envisaged. Patients’ voices still often remain obscured. This has resulted in part from assumptions about the limitations of archives, many of which are formed of institutional records written from the perspective of health professionals. Patient voices in Britain repositions patient experiences at the centre of healthcare history, using new types of sources and reading familiar sources in new ways. Focusing on military medicine, Poor Law medicine, disability, psychiatry and sexual health, this collection encourages historians to tackle the ethical challenges of using archival material and to think more carefully about how their work might speak to persistent health inequalities and challenges in health-service delivery.
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Anne Hanley is Senior Research Fellow and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of BirminghamJessica Meyer is Professor of British Social and Cultural History at the University of Leeds

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Unlike many edited volumes, the editors and contributors have made a concerted effort here to integrate their contributions speak to each other. Particularly valuable are the efforts that each chapter makes to show how historical research can improve contemporary policy making. The volume convincingly shows that patients—including those outside the entitled classes—were far from voiceless; by reading records ‘against the grain’ or mining extant archival collections with them in mind, these historians have lived up to Roy Porter’s call to write more patient-centred narratives.Social History of Medicine

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