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Charity and the London Hospitals 1850-1898 by Keir Waddington, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Charity and the London Hospitals 1850-1898 by Keir Waddington, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Charity and the London Hospitals 1850-1898 by Keir Waddington, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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By the 1890s Victorians assumed that London's hospitals were facing an endemic financial crisis which was so severe that some feared the state might have to intervene to support an ailing voluntary system: charity both underpinned London's hospitals and proved insufficient to meet the ever-increasing cost of care, despite the ability of those running the hospitals to pick the pockets of the benevolent. Charity and the London Hospitals takes these themes to study the development of the hospital as an economic, medical, and voluntary institution in the second half of the nineteenth century. Drawing on a comparative study of hospital records, the author investigates how and why Victorians contributed to show that benevolence was rarely amenable to a single form or reason, moving on to argue that though it remained central to the hospitals' raison d' tre, philanthropy's contribution was modified at a financial and administrative level as hospitals shifted from being philanthropic to medical institutions. Why this process occurred and the impact of professionalisation and scientific medicine are also assessed, as are the debates surrounding hospitals and the state at the end of the nineteenth century. KEIR WADDINGTON is Professor of History at Cardiff University. | Charity and the London Hospitals 1850-1898 by Keir Waddington, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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