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Medicine and charity before the welfare state /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Barry, Jonathan, 1956-, Jones, Colin, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.
Colección:Studies in the social history of medicine.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.