FINANCE AND SUPPLY IN AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY HOSPITAL 1747–1830

The Bethel at Norwich: an eighteenth-century hospital for lunatics.

The history of psvchiatry has changed in recent years. One of the more exciting aspects of this change has been the move to examine primary clinical or administrative sources, to explore what was taking place within the developing profession and its institutional environment, and to relate this to its social and political surroundings. There are a number of such studies, on, for example, the Re...

Charitable knowledge: hospital pupils and practitioners in eighteenth-century London

Over the past fifteen years, many aspects of the eighteenth-century British medical world have received the attention of historians. To this already sizeable and growing literature, Susan C Lawrence's book Charitable knowledge makes an impressive addition. What is distinctive about her contribution is its imaginative synthesis of many strands of development and its larger aim of demonstrating w...

Eighteenth-century chemistry as an investigative enterprise

14 articles, the most reflective is that of an outsider, Jane Lewis of the London School of Economics, who in an overview of the literature suggests, somewhat at odds with the other contributors, that "it is a mistake to see women as passive recipients [of obstetrical care] or as victims of these changes". Essays in the volume edited by Valerie Fildes continue this celebratory note of women's e...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe