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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/0425/094
• Soggetto topico: Social medicine - Europe - History; Charities, Medical - Europe - History
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Social conditions
• Altri autori: BarryJonathan <1956-> JonesColin <1947->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Medicine and charity before the welfare state
• ISBN: 1-134-83345-8; 1-134-83346-6; 1-280-15752-6; 0-585-44717-9; 9786610157525; 0-203-42778-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821916703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the social history of medicine.