Moral Economy, Mixed Economy, and the Biohazardous Shaping of Health Infrastructure in Eighteenth-Century London.

  • Published In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2024, v. 58, n. 1. P. 25 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Siena, Kevin 3 of 3

Abstract

This study analyzes London workhouse infirmaries in the eighteenth century to explore how medical infrastructure was produced and administered through negotiated contestation between local elites and the poor they governed. It shows how workhouse infirmaries manufactured and reinforced social arrangements at a time of transition when advancing capitalism fractured elements of the traditional caring economy. Yet the codifying of customary social obligations in the Old Poor Law afforded the sick poor considerable traction in their demands for medical care demands that resulted in tangible changes to the structure and purpose of medical infrastructure during the early stages of industrialization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2024/10, Vol. 58, Issue 1, p25
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Law
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:0013-2586
  • DOI:10.1353/ecs.2024.a944058
  • Accession Number:180973141
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