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Throughout the entire period covered by this collection, in order to receive assistance when unemployed (whether through the Poor Law or government public works or unemployment insurance), people (men, most often) had to have a positive relationship to paid employment. This is the subject of Proposed Solutions to Unemployment. In "Back to the Land and Labour Colonies," the sources explore various efforts to train urban unemployed men in agricultural work. Similarly, "Emigration and Empire" looks at the ways that private societies and local and central government bodies promoted emigration schemes to send unemployed men to colonies that could use their work. "The Right to Work" changes perspective, focusing on the demands of labour and unemployed groups who made arguments that unemployed men should be given work or maintained at a level that equalled their pay. The collection finishes with "The Unemployed Workman's Act and Unemployment Insurance," which shows that even with the promise of national government action, the moralizing language of blaming the unemployed for their condition remained.

In the early twentieth century, local British poor law guardians' concerns with the maintenance of deserted and neglected families were transformed into imperial, and later transnational, policy promoting justice for abandoned wives and children. Both local court cases concerning maintenance and policy debates at the national and imperial levels reveal the ways in which a breadwinner model of masculinity shaped maintenance policy and practice. Although the maintenance problem was framed differently by local welfare providers and imperial heads of state, concerns about welfare costs and human rights intersected in the figure of the irresponsible male citizen, who challenged the dominant model of British/imperial masculinity by refusing to maintain his wife.

This article argues that ideas about gender informed the
1834 New Poor Law's concept of "ablebodiedness," which in turn affected
how women petitioned for assistance and received relief. Utilizing poor
law reports, workhouse and parish records, and women's petitions for
governmental assistance in the 1830s and 1840s, Levine-Clark demonstrates
that the poor law placed women in a difficult position by forcing
them to decide whether they were women or workers. The creators of
the New Poor Law assumed that women were physically fragile dependents
of male providers whose role was above all domestic; simultaneously,
the New Poor Law saw any able-bodied petitioner as one who supported
his or her existence through gainful employment. Focusing on the idea
of ablebodiedness, this article illuminates the complex and sometimes
conflicting ways gender operated in early Victorian English poor
law theory and practice.

"Dysfunctional Domesticity" contributes to the growing reevaluation of the importance of the history of the family to understanding the history of insanity. Using patient case histories from the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, this article examines representations of family life among the poor in England in the 1830s and 1840s. Among the so-called moral causes of insanity, family relationships held a prominent place. Female patients more than male patients had their mental illnesses attributed to their domestic circumstances: the poverty of their home lives, grief over the death of friends and family, love and marital relationships gone wrong, and violence in their homes. The case histories reveal that poor women experienced many pressures in the domestic sphere, and insanity may have been one way to escape dysfunctional domesticity.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Too Long Too Short / Vonnegut, Mark -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Why, The What, And The How Of The Medical/Health Humanities / Friedman, Lester D. / Wear, Delese / Jones, Therese -- Part I. Disease And Illness -- Chapter 1. Being A Good Story: The Humanities As Therapeutic Practice / Frank, Arthur W. -- Chapter 2. Illuminating The It, Thee, And We Of Disease And Illness: The Metamorphosis And Related Works / Soricelli, Rhonda L. / Flood, David H. -- Chapter 3. "This Weird, Incurable Disease": Competing Diagnoses In The Rhetoric Of Morgellons / Keränen, Lisa -- Chapter 4. My Quest For Health / Wall, Shelley / Sappol, Michael -- Part II. Disability -- Chapter 5. Disability In Two Doctor Stories / Holmes, Martha Stoddard -- Chapter 6. Music And Disability / Straus, Joseph N. -- Chapter 7. American Narrative Films And Disability: An Uneasy History / Norden, Martin F. -- Chapter 8. Standout / Iezzoni, Lisa I. -- Part III. Death And Dying -- Chapter 9. When The Doctor Is Not God: The Impact Of Religion On Medical Decision Making At The End Of Life / Cohn, Felicia -- Chapter 10. Postmodern Death And Dying: A Literary Analysis / Lantos, John / Montello, Martha -- Chapter 11. Second Degree Block: Poem And Commentary / Haddad, Amy -- Part IV. Patient- Professional Relationships -- Chapter 12. Social Studies: The Humanities, Narrative, And The Social Context Of The Patient-Professional Relationship / Garden, Rebecca -- Chapter 13. Humanities And The Medical Home / Hester, Rebecca / Brody, Howard / Clark, Mark -- Chapter 14. Occupational Medicine / Coulehan, Jack -- Part V. The Body -- Chapter 15. The Virtues Of The Imperfect Body / Tong, Rosemarie -- Chapter 16. Seeing Bodies In Pain / Gilman, Sander L. -- Chapter 17. Public Fetuses / Hausman, Bernice L. -- Chapter 18. More Body: A Performance For Five (Or More) Bodies / Case, Gretchen A. -- Part VI. Gender And Sexuality -- Chapter 19. Adult Intake Form / Peterkin, Allan -- Chapter 20. What Is Sex For? Or, The Many Uses Of The Vag / Dreger, Alice -- Chapter 21. "I Always Prefer The Scissors": Isaac Baker Brown And Feminist Histories Of Medicine / Levine-Clark, Marjorie -- Chapter 22. Comics In The Health Humanities: A New Approach To Sex And Gender Education / Squier, Susan M. -- Chapter 23. I Am Gula, Hear Me Roar: On Gender And Medicine / Campo, Rafael -- Part VII. Race And Class -- Chapter 24. Listening As Freedom: Narrative, Health, And Social Justice / DasGupta, Sayantani -- Chapter 25. Race And Mental Health / Metzl, Jonathan M. -- Chapter 26. Law'S Hand In Race, Class, And Health Inequities: On The Humanities And The Social Determinants Of Health / Goldberg, Daniel -- Chapter 27. The Rooms Of Our Souls / Grainger-Monsen, Maren -- Part VIII. Aging -- Chapter 28. "Old Age Isn'T A Battle, It'S A Massacre": Reading Philip Roth'S Everyman / Saxton, Benjamin / Cole, Thomas R. -- Chapter 29. "Do You Remember Me?" Constructions Of Alzheimer'S Disease In Literature And Film / Kaplan, E. Ann -- Chapter 30. Love In The Time Of Dementia / Winakur, Jerald -- Part IX. Mental Illness -- Chapter 31. Narrating Our Sadness, With A Little Help From The Humanities / Lewis, Brad -- Chapter 32. Teaching Narratives Of Mental Illness / Jones, Anne Hudson -- Chapter 33. Community Psychiatry And The Medical Humanities / Rowe, Michael -- Chapter 34. Culpability / Williams, Ian -- Part X. Spirituality And Religion -- Chapter 35. Rites Of Bioethics / Chambers, Tod -- Chapter 36. Health And Humanities: Spirituality And Religion / Selman, Lucy / Barfield, Raymond C. -- Chapter 37. Scientia Mortis And The Ars Moriendi: To The Memory Of Norman / Bishop, Jeffrey P. -- Chapter 38. Meditations Of An Anesthesiologist: Poem And Commentary / Shafer, Audrey -- Part XI. Science And Technology -- Chapter 39. Andromeda'S Futures: A Story Of Humanities, Technology, Science, And Art / Belling, Catherine -- Chapter 40. Knowing And Seeing: Reconstructing Frankenstein / Wolpe, Paul Root -- Chapter 41. A Brief History Of Love: A Rationale For The History Of Epidemics / Kavey, Allison B. -- Chapter 42. Calcedonies / Nisker, Jeff -- Part XII. Health Professions Education -- Chapter 43. Teaching Autism Through Naturalized Narrative Ethics: Closing The Divide Between Bioethics And Medical Humanities / Aultman, Julie M. -- Chapter 44. Courting Discomfort In An Undergraduate Health Humanities Classroom / Lamb, Erin Gentry / Blackie, Michael -- Chapter 45. The Medical Humanities In Medical Education: Toward A Medical Aesthetics Of Resistance / Bleakley, Alan -- Chapter 46. In Defense Of Cheaper Stethoscopes / Baruch, Jay -- References -- Notes On Contributors -- Index