The self-experience of chronic incapacity among the labouring poor : pauper narratives and territorial hospitals in early modern rural Germany
This thesis examines the experiences of the labouring poor who were suffering from chronic physical illnesses in the early modern period. Despite the popularity of institutional history among medical historians, the experiences of the sick poor themselves have hitherto been sorely neglected. Researc...
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University College London (University of London)
2001
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395164 |