Venereal Diseases and the Reform Enigma
Venereal Diseases and the Reform Enigma

Author: Susan Lemar

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-12-11

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1527523160

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When Sir Humphrey Appleby warned his Prime Minister against making “courageous policy”, he could have been talking about venereal diseases. Many have considered misogyny, class conflict and racial paranoia as the drivers of venereal diseases control policy in the early twentieth century. In reality, such policy was inclined towards disease control in the most practical way, with the resources to hand, and in line with realistic outcomes. This book re-examines historical sources to reveal the unacknowledged complexity of determining public policy for the control of venereal diseases in two case studies, Edinburgh in Scotland and Adelaide in South Australia.

Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England
Sin, Organized Charity and the Poor Law in Victorian England

Author: R. Humphreys

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1995-07-17

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 023037543X

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Politicians, social administrators, economists, biographers and historians have shared the belief that the Charity Organisation Society effectively rationalised relief to the Victorian poor and illustrated the advantages of caring voluntarism over impersonal state handouts. It is now clear that in provincial England these impressions were illusory. The alleged sinful profligacy of other charitable bodies was persistently condemned by the Charity Organisation Society for fostering latant sin amongst the poor. By exposing how they failed in practice to satisfy their own prescriptions for appropriate poor relief this volume asks whether the Charity Organisation Society were themselves morally equipped to castigate others about sin.