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.

Series:

Studies in the social history of medicine.

Studies in the social history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Poor.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in Northern Europe by drawing on research into local conditions and mapping general patterns of development.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe; The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighbourly love; Dutch influence on urban planning, health care and poor relief: the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567 1720; Continuity and change: attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern Antwerp; Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns: Hamburg, Bremen and Lbeck; Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth-century Denmark

The wrath of God: Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' WarHealth care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland: c. 1500 1700; Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk): the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century; Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575 1710; Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London; Index;

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.

ISBN:

1-134-80860-7

1-134-80861-5

1-280-32084-2

0-585-44816-7

9786610320844

0-203-43134-0

9780203431344

OCLC:

57048930