‘A plentiful crop of cripples made by all this progress’: Disability, Artificial Limbs and Working-Class Mutualism in the South Wales Coalfield, 1890-1948’

Steve Thompson, Ben Curtis

Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolynErthygladolygiad gan gymheiriaid

14 Dyfyniadau (Scopus)
88 Wedi eu Llwytho i Lawr (Pure)

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Historians of orthopaedics, artificial limbs and disability have devoted a great deal of attention to children and soldiers but have neglected to give sufficient space in their studies to industrial workers, the other patient group that has been identified as crucial to the development of these areas. Furthermore, this attention has led to an imbalanced focus on charitable and philanthropic activities as the main means of assistance and the neglect of a significant part of the voluntary sphere, the labour movement. This article, focusing on industrial south Wales, examines the efforts of working-class organisations to provide artificial limbs and a range of other surgical appliances to workers and their family members in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It finds that a distinctive, labourist conception of disability existed which envisaged disabled workers as an important priority and one to which significant time, effort and resources were devoted.
Iaith wreiddiolSaesneg
Tudalennau (o-i)708-727
Nifer y tudalennau20
CyfnodolynSocial History of Medicine
Cyfrol27
Rhif cyhoeddi4
Dyddiad ar-lein cynnar07 Ebr 2014
Dynodwyr Gwrthrych Digidol (DOIs)
StatwsCyhoeddwyd - 2014

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