Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815

The British Red Cross in North-West Europe

The Military Welfare unit carries out the traditional work of the Red Cross and Order of St. John in the care and welfare of sick and wounded of the fighting forces during war. In the arrangement for sending food-parcels and other comforts to prisoners of war and the staffing of Convalescent Homes, Relatives' Hostels, etc., this unit works intimately with the army and under the general directio...

Doctors and slaves. A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies, 1680—1834

and design to publication, together with the system of Home Office licensing and inspection, is described. The latter, it is pointed out, is considerably more rigorous and effective than monitoring of other activities, such as inspection of factories, where considerable human hazard may exist, or other situations where pain and suffering by humans or animals occur. Finally, the author discusses...

British spas from 1815 to the present: a social history

Yet another book for the general reader on the history of tuberculosis, by a retired professor of medicine. Admittedly, most of the others are elderly, but one even has almost exactly the same title-J Arthur Myers' Captain of all these men ofdeath (1977). The prospect is enough to make the professional historian of medicine sigh, and the opening chapters of this book, which recount evidence for...

"Desirous of improvements in medicine": pupils and practitioners in the medical societies at Guy's and St. Bartholomew's Hospitals, 1795-1815.

Medicine and magnificence: British hospital and asylum architecture, 1660–1815

guaranteed the spread of the asylum system, which political discourse portrayed as compassionate and humanitarian in contrast to the punitive workhouses. However, argues Bartlett, the asylums quickly became swamped with pauper lunatics so that control rather than cure or reform inevitably became their ethos. This reality was acknowledged in 1874 when central government agreed to make a per diem...