The Victorian City (HI371) - Term 2, Seminar 3
Seminar 3: Medicine and Health
Key Texts
E Chadwick, Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain
C Hamlin, 'Muddling in Bumbledon: on the enormity of large sanitary improvements in four British towns', Victorian Studies, 1988
D Porter (ed.), The History of Public health and the Modern State
Andrew Wohl, Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain
· In what ways did industrialisation affect the health of city workers?
· How important was Chadwick's report and what does it reveal about Victorian attitudes?
· How effective were public health reforms in the Victorian City?
Further Reading
W F Bynum and R Porter (eds), Living and Dying in London
M Daunton (ed.) Cambridge Urban History of Britain, chapters 11 & 12
S Halliday, The Great Stink of London: Sir Joseph Bazalgaette and the cleansing of the Victorian metropolis
C Hamlin, Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick
C Hamlin, ‘Providence and putrefaction: Victorian sanitarians and the natural theology of health and disease’, Victorian Studies, 1984-5
Anne Hardy, Health and Medicine in Britain since 1860
Anne Hardy, The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine 1856-1900
G Kearns. 'Cholera, nuisance and environmental management in Islington, 1830-55' in
C Lawrence, Medicine in the making of modern Britain
R.J. Morris, Cholera 1832: The Social Response to an Epidemic
Roy Porter, Disease, Medicine and Society in England, 1550-1860
G Rosen, A History of Public Health
F.B. Smith, The People’s Health 1830-1910
Andrew Wohl, Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain
R. Woods and J. Woodward (eds), Urban Disease and Mortality
Robert Woods and Nicola Shelton, An Atlas of Victorian Mortality
TLTP Package: Major Themes in Women’s History: Medicine, Biology and Women’s Bodies