Inequality in nineteenth-century welfare provision : a study of access to and quality of institutional medical care for the elderly in England

My thesis question whether access to and quality of medical care for the elderly deteriorated over the nineteenth century and thereby contributed negatively to welfare inequality. This hypothesis is based on a reading of the historiography of old age, in which historians and gerontologists develop a...

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Main Author: Edwards, Claudia
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271308