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Medicine and charity before the welfare state / edited by Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in the social history of medicine.
- Studies in the social history of medicine
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--Europe--History.
- Social medicine.
- Charities, Medical--Europe--History.
- Charities, Medical.
- Europe--Social conditions.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Routledge, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe up to the advent of welfare states in the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; INTRODUCTION; IMAGINING MEDIEVAL HOSPITALS: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CULTURAL MEANING OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE; HEALING THE POOR: HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE; THE MOTIVATIONS OF BENEFACTORS: AN OVERVIEW OF APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF CHARITY; 'HARDLY A HOSPITAL, BUT A CHARITY FOR PAUPER LUNATICS'? THERAPEUTICS AT BETHLEM IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES; TWO MEDICAL CHARITIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON: THE LOCK HOSPITAL AND THE LYING-IN CHARITY FOR MARRIED WOMEN
- THE SOCIETE DE CHARITE MATERNELLE, 1788 1815URBAN GROWTH AND MEDICAL CHARITY: HAMBURG 1788 1815; THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CARING: NURSING CHARITIES, c.1830 c.1860; LAY AND MEDICAL CONCEPTIONS OF MEDICAL CHARITY DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE CASE OF THE HUDDERSFIELD GENERAL DISPENSARY AND INFIRMARY; THE FUNCTION AND MALFUNCTION OF MUTUAL AID SOCIETIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE; THE MODERNIZATION OF CHARITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE AND GERMANY; GOVERNMENT AND CHARITY IN THE DISTRESSED MINING AREAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, 1928 30
- THE ACHES OF INDUSTRY: PHILANTHROPY AND RHEUMATISM IN INTER-WAR BRITAINIndex
- Notes:
- "First published in 1991"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-83345-8
- 1-134-83346-6
- 1-280-15752-6
- 0-585-44717-9
- 9786610157525
- 0-203-42778-5
- 9780203427781
- OCLC:
- 568132214
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