UID:
almafu_9959234252002883
Format:
1 online resource (271 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-80860-7
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1-134-80861-5
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1-280-32084-2
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0-585-44816-7
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9786610320844
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0-203-43134-0
Series Statement:
Studies in the social history of medicine
Content:
This book provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in Northern Europe by drawing on research into local conditions and mapping general patterns of development.
Note:
"Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a conference entitled Health care provision and poor relief in the Baltic and North Sea Region 1500-1700, held in Odense, Denmark, in September 1994 ... two papers which were not presented at the conference have been added ..."--Pref.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe; The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighbourly love; Dutch influence on urban planning, health care and poor relief: the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567 1720; Continuity and change: attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern Antwerp; Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns: Hamburg, Bremen and Lbeck; Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth-century Denmark
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The wrath of God: Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' WarHealth care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland: c. 1500 1700; Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk): the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century; Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575 1710; Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London; Index;
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-12130-2
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203431344
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