The volume grew out of a March 1993 symposium sponsored by the History of Medicine section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. The 11 essays in the book include: (1) Howard's Beginning: Prisons, Disease, Hygiene; (2) Medical Treatment and Prisoners' Health in Stafford Gaol During the Eighteenth Century; (3) The Health of Prisoners and the Two Faces of Benthamism; (4) Development of the Prison Medical Service, 1774-1895; (5) Elizabeth Fry and Mid-Nineteenth Century Reform; (6) The Prison Medical Service and the Deviant, 1895-1948; (7) Prison Doctors and Prison Suicide Research; (8) Health Services for Prisoners: Lost in Ambiguities; (9) The Criminal Lunatic Asylum System Before and After Broadmoor; (10) The Woolf Report and After; and (11) The Lessons of History. Bibliography, notes, index