A 2008 article titled “A View from the Streets: Women and Medical Work in Elizabethan London” sparked new scholarship on the role of women in relief work for the poor. In the article, Deborah Harkness used parish records, probate records, lists of immigrants to London, hospital records, and individual manuscripts to place greater emphasis on women in the process of caring for the poor. The inclusion of women continued in other studies and helped create a deeper understanding of the working poor and women in the social context of the Poor Law. Harkness demonstrated that “women doctors contributed greatly to the social order of the city.” Her work, while lacking an engagement with the historiography of the topic, provided an insight into women within the parish and helped generate more work on women within the parish.