Patient Voices in Britain, 1840–1948

Anne Hanley is Senior Research Fellow and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of Birmingham Jessica Meyer is Professor of British Social and Cultural History at the University of Leeds -- .

Introduction: searching for the patient – Anne Hanley and Jessica Meyer
Part I: Locating the patient: new approaches
1 The non-patient’s view – Michael Worboys
2 Family not to be informed? The ethical use of historical medical documentation – Jessica Meyer and Alexia Moncrieff
Part II: Voices from the institution
3 Lunatics’ rights activism in Britain and the German Empire, 1870–1920: a European perspective – Burkhart Brückner
4 Narrating and navigating patient experiences of farm work in English psychiatric institutions, 1845–1914 – Sarah Holland
5 The patient’s view as history from below: evidence from the Victorian poor, 1834–71 – Paul Carter and Steve King
Part III: User-driven medicine
6 Respiratory technologies and the co-production of breathing in the twentieth century – Coreen McGuire, Jaipreet Virdi and Jenny Hutton
7 The patient’s new clothes: British soldiers as complementary practitioners in the First World War – Georgia McWhinney
Part IV: Negotiating stigma and shame
8 ‘Dear Dr Kirkpatrick’: recovering Irish experiences of VD, 1924–47 – Lloyd (Meadhbh) Houston
9 ‘I caught it and yours truly was very sorry for himself’: mapping the emotional worlds of British VD patients – Anne Hanley
Index -- .