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Poor - Medical care

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  • Queen Adelaide's Dispensary, Bethnal Green. Wood engraving by O. Jewitt after himself [1865].
  • Arabian doctors perform bleeding on poor Italian people; money jets out with the blood; signifying learned Arabs fleecing the poor. Etching by G.M. Mitelli after himself, 1699.
  • A physician and a surgeon pointing to herbs in a herb garden; indicating medicine and surgery for the poor. Engraving, 1671.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen.

    Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022. | Date: [2005], ©2005
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    Slums of India / Neela Ganguly.

    Ganguly, Neela | Date: [2015]
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    Poor people's medicine : Medicaid and American charity care since 1965 / Jonathan Engel.

    Engel, Jonathan. | Date: 2006
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    Power, suffering, and the struggle for dignity : human rights frameworks for health and why they matter / Alicia Ely Yamin ; foreword by Paul Farmer.

    Yamin, Alicia Ely | Date: [2016]
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    Suggestions toward the improvement of the dispensary at Newark, founded on an estimate of the remedial wants of that town & neighbourhood : followed by an appendix containing tabular views of the management and results of thirty English dispensaries / by John J. Bigsby.

    Bigsby, John J. (John Jeremiah), 1792-1881. | Date: 1836
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