Margaret Pelling

Bringing together her key studies of health, medicine and poverty in Tudor and Stuart England (a number published here for the first time, and the whole presented with a substantial introduction and commentary), Margaret Pelling makes a welcome contribution. Here, the findings of the medical historian are put at the service of social history - to help answer the questions of social historians, to enrich their outlook and understanding, and to be made accessible to a wider audience. Her essays show that - then as now - health, sickness and medical care were everyday obsessions of ordinary people in the Tudor and Stuart era. These preoccupations are reflected in the regulation of the urban environment, in satire and vernacular literature, in attitudes to sexuality and to diet, in occupational structures - indeed in almost every aspect of the period.

Sickness, Medical Occupations, and the Urban Poor in Early Modern England : Essays

The Common Lot

Richard M. Smith

Debates on policy concerning medical care and social welfare of the elderly become ever more pressing, and many of the assumptions on which they are based are now open to question. This study sets out to provide a historical perspective on the economic, medical, class and gender relations of the elderly, which until now have received relatively little attention. In particular, the position of the elderly is linked to the fundamental issues of health, disability and medical care. With attention currently focused on the setting of the retirement age, community and family care, and pensions, as well as wider debates on the rights of the elderly, this volume aims to supply a historical context for such issues.

Historical Perspectives

Life, Death and the Elderly

Hilary Marland

Medicine, Religion, and Gender in England and the Netherlands, 1450-1800

The Task of Healing

Reader in Social History of Medicine Margaret Pelling

Margaret Pelling

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