UID:
almafu_9959234238602883
Format:
1 online resource (270 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-83345-8
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1-134-83346-6
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1-280-15752-6
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0-585-44717-9
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9786610157525
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0-203-42778-5
Series Statement:
Studies in the social history of medicine
Content:
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.
Note:
"First published in 1991"--T.p. verso.
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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
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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
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THE ACHES OF INDUSTRY: PHILANTHROPY AND RHEUMATISM IN INTER-WAR BRITAINIndex
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-138-14995-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-11136-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203427781
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