Medicine and charity before the welfare state /

Medicine and charity before the welfare state / edited by Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1991. - 1 online resource (x, 259 pages) - Studies in the social history of medicine . - Studies in the social history of medicine. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Imagining medieval hospitals : considerations on the cultural meaning of institutional change / Miri Rubin -- Healing the poor : hospitals and medical assistance in Renaissance Florence / Katharine Park -- The motivations of benefactors : an overview of approaches to the study of charity / Sandra Cavallo -- 'Hardly a hospital, but a charity for pauper lunatics'? : therapeutics at Bethlem in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jonathan Andrews -- Two medical charities in eighteenth-century London : the Lock Hospital and the Lying-In Charity for married women / Donna Andrew -- The Societe de Charite Maternelle, 1788-1815 / Stuart Woolf -- Urban growth and medical charity : Hamburg 1788-1815 / Mary Lindemann -- The costs and benefits of caring : nursing charities, c.1830-c.1860 / Anne Summers. Lay and medical conceptions of medical charity during the nineteenth century : the case of the Huddersfield General Dispensary and Infirmary / Hilary Marland -- The function and malfunction of mutual aid societies in nineteenth-century France / Allan Mitchell -- The modernization of charity in nineteenth-century France and Germany / Paul Weindling -- Government and charity in the distressed mining areas of England and Wales, 1928-30 / Bernard Harris -- The aches of industry : philanthropy and rheumatism in inter-war Britain / David Cantor.

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.


English.

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Social medicine--History.--Europe
Charities, Medical--History.--Europe
Charities--history
Health Services--history
Social Conditions--history
State Medicine--history
Aide médicale--Histoire.--Europe
MEDICAL--Health Risk Assessment.
Charities, Medical.
Social conditions
Social medicine.


Europe--Social conditions.
Europe.
Europe
Europe--Conditions sociales.
Europe.
Europe.

Medicine Sociology History Western Europe


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RA418.3.E85 / M43 1991eb

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WA 11 / GA1 M37 1991

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