Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700 / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cunningham, Andrew, Dr.

Grell, Ole Peter

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Studies in the social history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--Medical care--Europe, Northern--History--16th century--Congresses.

Poor.

Poor--Medical care.

Northern Europe.

History.

Charities--Europe, Northern--History--16th century--Congresses.

Charities.

Public welfare--Europe, Northern--History--16th century--Congresses.

Public welfare.

Poor--Medical care--Europe, Northern--History--17th century--Congresses.

Charities--Europe, Northern--History--17th century--Congresses.

Public welfare--Europe, Northern--History--17th century--Congresses.

Reformation--Congresses.

Reformation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Summary:

The problem of the poor grew in the early modern period as populations rose dramatically and created many extra pressures on the state. In Northern Europe, cities went through a period of rapid growth and central and local administrations saw considerable expansion. "Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700" provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in the economically important regions of Northern Europe in this period when urban poverty became a generally recognized problem for both magistracies and governments. With contributions from international and leading scholars in the field, this volume draws on research into local conditions; maps general patterns of development and explores the similarities and differences between the local and national approaches to health care provision and poverty.

Contents:

The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe / Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham

The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighborly love / Ole Peter Grell

Dutch influence on urban planning, health care, and poor relief : the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567-1720 / Jonathan I. Israel

Continuity and change : attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern Antwerp / Hugo Soly

Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns : Hamburg, Bremen, and Lübeck / Robert Jütte

Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth century Denmark / Thomas Riis

The wrath of God : Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War / E. Ladewig Petersen

Health care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland : c. 1500-1700 / E.I. Kouri

Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk) : the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century / Maria Bogucka

Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575-1710 / Rosalind Mitchison

Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London / Paul Slack.

Notes:

"Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a conference entitled Health care provision and poor relief in the Baltic and North Sea Region 1500-1700, held in Odense, Denmark, in September 1994 ... two papers which were not presented at the conference have been added ..."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0415121302

OCLC:

37127065