Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Anne Hanley is Senior Research Fellow and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Birmingham
Jessica Meyer is Professor of British Social and Cultural History at the University of Leeds
<p>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.<br /><b><i>Social History of Medicine</i></b></p>
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Introduction: searching for the patient – Anne Hanley and Jessica Meyer
Part I: Locating the patient: new approaches
1 The non-patient’s view – Michael Worboys
2 Family not to be informed? The ethical use of historical medical documentation – Jessica Meyer and Alexia Moncrieff
Part II: Voices from the institution
3 Lunatics’ rights activism in Britain and the German Empire, 1870–1920: a European perspective – Burkhart Brückner
4 Narrating and navigating patient experiences of farm work in English psychiatric institutions, 1845–1914 – Sarah Holland
5 The patient’s view as history from below: evidence from the Victorian poor, 1834–71 – Paul Carter and Steve King
Part III: User-driven medicine
6 Respiratory technologies and the co-production of breathing in the twentieth century – Coreen McGuire, Jaipreet Virdi and Jenny Hutton
7 The patient’s new clothes: British soldiers as complementary practitioners in the First World War – Georgia McWhinney
Part IV: Negotiating stigma and shame
8 ‘Dear Dr Kirkpatrick’: recovering Irish experiences of VD, 1924–47 – Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston
9 ‘I caught it and yours truly was very sorry for himself’: mapping the emotional worlds of British VD patients – Anne Hanley
Index
Patient voices in Britain repositions the patient at the centre of healthcare histories. By prioritising the patient’s perspective in the century before the National Health Service, this edited collection enriches our understanding of healthcare in the context of Britain’s emerging welfare state.
Understanding patient experiences is vital for nuanced histories of medicine and effective health policy. In 1985 Roy Porter called for patients to be retrieved from the margins of history because, without them, our understanding of illness and healthcare would remain distorted. But despite concerted efforts, the innovation that Porter envisaged has not come to pass. Responding to Porter’s call, this book encourages historians to reimagine patienthood. It encompasses topics like ethical archival practice, life within institutions, user-driven medicine and the impact of shame and stigma on health outcomes, while providing a model for using new sources and reading familiar sources in new ways. Exploring traditional clinical spaces and beyond, it interrogates what it meant to be a patient and how this has changed over time.
The collection also aims to help historians locate and develop policy relevance within their work, reflecting on how these historical tensions continue to shape attitudes towards health, illness and the clinical encounter. Each chapter presents a framework for using history to speak to pressing policy issues. Patient voices are there, in the archive. We just need to listen.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Anne Hanley is Senior Research Fellow and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Birmingham
Jessica Meyer is Professor of British Social and Cultural History at the University of Leeds