Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century northern Europe / edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Robert Jütte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grell, Ole Peter.

Cunningham, Andrew, Dr.

Jütte, Robert.

Series:

History of medicine in context

The history of medicine in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--Europe, Northern--History--18th century.

Medical care.

Medical care--Europe, Northern--History--19th century.

Public welfare--Europe, Northern--History--18th century.

Public welfare.

Public welfare--Europe, Northern--History--19th century.

Poor--Medical care--Europe, Northern--History.

Poor.

Public health--Europe, Northern--History.

Public health.

Social medicine--Europe, Northern--History.

Social medicine.

Medical Indigency--history.

History.

Poor--Medical care.

Europe.

Delivery of Health Care--history.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

Social Welfare--history.

Northern Europe.

Medical Subjects:

Medical Indigency--history.

Europe.

Delivery of Health Care--history.

History, 18th Century.

History, 19th Century.

Social Welfare--history.

Physical Description:

vi, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2002.

Contents:

Part 1 General Themes

1 Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe / Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham 3

2 Health Care and the Construction of Citizenship in Civil Societies in the Era of the Enlightenment and Industrialisation / Dorothy Porter 15

3 Histories of Risk and Welfare in Europe during the 18th and 19th Centuries / Marco van Leeuwen 32

Part 2 The German States

4 Health Care Provision and Poor Relief in Enlightenment and 19th Century Prussia / Fritz Dross 69

5 Health Care Provision and Poor Relief in the Electorate and Kingdom of Bavaria / Michael Stolberg 112

6 Urban Charity and the Relief of the Sick Poor in Northern Germany, 1750-1850 / Mary Lindemann 136

Part 3 Russia and Scandinavia

7 Health Care and Poor Relief in Russia, 1700-1856 / Hubertus Jahn 157

8 Health Care Provision and Poor Relief in Enlightenment and 19th Century Denmark / Gerda Bonderup 172

9 Ideology or Pragmatism? Health Care Provision and Poor Relief in Norway in the 19th Century / Oivind Larsen 189

Part 4 Britain

10 Health Care and Poor Relief in Provincial England / Anne Crowther 203

11 Medical Relief and the New Poor Law in London / David Green 220

12 Poor Relief and Health Care in 19th Century Scotland / Rosalind Mitchison 246

Part 5 The Netherlands

13 Dutch Approaches to Problems of Illness and Poverty between the Golden Age and the Fin de Siecle / Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra 259

Part 6 France

14 Poor Relief and Medical Assistance in 18th and 19th Century Paris / Matthew Ramsey 279

15 Health Care Provision and Poor Relief in 19th Century Provincial France / Olivier Faure 309.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754602753

OCLC:

46704153