ABSTRACT

Oral History, Health and Welfare discusses the significance of oral history to the history of the development of health and welfare provisions. It includes discussion on:
* the end of the workhouse
* professional education and training of midwives
* HIV and Aids
* birth control
* the role of the community pharmacist
* pioneers of geriatric medicine
* oral history and the history of learning disability.

chapter |20 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter 1|26 pages

FAMILY AND VOCATION

chapter 7|22 pages

INSTITUTIONAL ABUSE

chapter 12|18 pages

MIDWIVES AS ‘MID-HUSBANDS’?

chapter 13|20 pages

THE MODERN HOSPICE MOVEMENT