title: Internal influences in the making of the English military hospital: the early-eighteenth-century Greenwich.
abstract: This chapter uses records at the Royal Greenwich Hospital for ex-sailors to analyse the nature of care, and to uncover how the chronically disabled patients themselves experienced the hospital. Greenwich became a 'reverse' institution, in that the ex-servicemen were closely regulated and treated like unruly visitors, while only officers and medics had free movement and influence. Although initially the inner workings of the Hospital owed much to almshouse and shipboard models, over time medical considerations became paramount. Physicians and surgeons became involved actively in governance and discipline, promoting environmental and dietary changes.
authors.forename: Geoffrey L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D006272:Health Facility Environment / Q000266:history; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D006772:Hospitals, Military / Q000266:history* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D009326:Naval Medicine / Q000266:history*; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000266:history; D006113:United Kingdom; D014728:Veterans / Q000266:history / Q000523:psychology