An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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GASKELL, Peter

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The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.

London: Baldwin and Cradock, 1833.

Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Machinery The Moral and Physical Condition of the Manufacturing Population Considered with Reference to Mechanical Substitutes of Human Labour. Digital facsimile of the 1833 work from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1836 work at this link.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › England (United Kingdom), OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE , SOCIAL MEDICINE