Caring for children with infectious diseases : children's experiences of fever hospitals and sanatoria in Scotland
Kendrick, Andrew (2023) Caring for children with infectious diseases : children's experiences of fever hospitals and sanatoria in Scotland. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 16 (1). pp. 9-27. ISSN 1941-3599 (https://doi.org/10.1353/hcy.2023.0006)
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Abstract
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, children were susceptible to deadly infectious diseases. An increasing focus on the health of children led to the opening of fever hospitals, lock hospitals, sanatoria, and convalescent homes. This paper addresses the impact of infectious diseases on children in Scotland: their proximity to death, their experiences of medical treatment in hospital, the hospital regimes, and their separation from families. It will show how advances in sanitation, housing, medicine, and medical practice led to the demise of these types of hospital settings in the second half of the twentieth century, providing thought-provoking context to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kendrick, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1910-6051;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 84035 Dates: DateEvent24 January 2023Published3 January 2023AcceptedSubjects: History General and Old World > Great Britain > Scotland
Science > Microbiology > Virology
Medicine > PediatricsDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Social Work and Social Policy > Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection (CELCIS) Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 07 Feb 2023 09:31 Last modified: 28 Sep 2024 14:12 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/84035