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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821916703321

Titolo

Medicine and charity before the welfare state / / edited by Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994

ISBN

1-134-83345-8

1-134-83346-6

1-280-15752-6

0-585-44717-9

9786610157525

0-203-42778-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Studies in the social history of medicine

Altri autori (Persone)

BarryJonathan <1956->

JonesColin <1947->

Disciplina

362.1/0425/094

Soggetti

Social medicine - Europe - History

Charities, Medical - Europe - History

Europe Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"First published in 1991"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.