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Sickness in the Workhouse illuminates the role of workhouse medicine in caring for England's poor, bringing sick paupers from the margins of society and placing them centre stage.

Poor --- Almshouses --- Poor laws --- Charity laws and legislation --- Benevolent institutions --- Charitable institutions --- Homes (Institutions) --- Poor farms --- Poorhouses --- Workhouses (Poorhouses) --- Asylums --- Charities --- Hospitals --- Institutional care --- Public institutions --- Public welfare --- Old age homes --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Medical care --- History --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Economic conditions --- England. --- Sickness in the Workhouse. --- health issues. --- historical healthcare. --- medical care. --- medical practice. --- nurses. --- poor law. --- urban health. --- workhouse doctors.