Family and vocation : career choice and the life histories of general practitioners / Michael Bevan -- The role of the community pharmacist in health and welfare 1991-1986 / Stuart Anderson and Virginia Berridge -- Recollections of the pioneers of the geriatric medicine specialty / Margot Jefferys -- The last years of the workhouse, 1930-1965 / John Adams -- The contribution of professional education and training to becoming a midwife, 1938-1951 / Maxine Rhodes -- Recollections of life 'on the district' in Scotland, 1940-1970 / Rona Ferguson -- Institutional abuse : memories of a 'special' school for visually impaired girls -- a personal account / Sally French with John Swain -- Oral history and the history of learning disability / Jan Walmsley and Dorothy Atkinson -- The recipients' view of welfare / Elizabeth Roberts -- HIV and Aids testimonies in the 1990s / Wendy Rickard -- The delivery of birth control advice in South Wales between the wars / Kate Fisher -- Midwives as 'mid-husbands'? Midwives and fathers / Robin Dixon -- The modern hospice movement : 'bright lights sparkling' or 'a bit of heaven for a few'? / Neil Small
Summary
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
