ISBN:
9780415111362
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (270 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State
DDC:
306.46109
Keywords:
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Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
THE ACHES OF INDUSTRY: PHILANTHROPY AND RHEUMATISM IN INTER-WAR BRITAINIndex;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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