Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century southern Europe / edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Bernd Roeck

Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, [2005]
Copyright Date: ©2005
Physical Description: vi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Grell, Ole Peter, Cunningham, Andrew, Dr., and Roeck, Bernd

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History of medicine in context

Contents

Some closing and opening remarks / Andrew Cunningham -- Health care and poor relief in southern Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries / John A. Davis -- Poor relief and health care in southern Europe, 1700-1900 : the ideological context / Nicholas Davidson -- Demand and charitable supply : poverty and poor relief in Austria in the 18th and 19th centuries / Martin Scheutz -- Welfare provision in Castile and Madrid / Pedro Carasa -- Poor relief and health care in 18th and 19th century Catalonia and Barcelona / Alfons Zarzoso -- Poor relief, social control and health care in 18th and 19th century Portugal / Maria Antónia Lopes -- The pope, the beggar, the sick, and the brotherhoods : health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century Rome / Martin Papenheim -- Poor relief, Enlightenment medicine and the protomedicato of Parma, 1748-1820 / David Gentilcore -- Poverty, relief and hospitals in Naples in the 18th and 19th centuries / Brigitte Marin -- Medicine for the poor in 18th and 19th century Bologna / Gianna Pomata -- Welfare provision in Piedmont / Giovanna Farrell-Vinay -- A journey of body and soul : the significance of the hospitals in southern, Catholic Europe for John Howard's views of health care and the creation of the utopian hospital / Ole Peter Grell.

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Poor—Medical care—Europe, Southern—History—18th century
Poor—Medical care—Europe, Southern—History—19th century
Poor—Services for—Europe, Southern—History—18th century
Poor—Services for—Europe, Southern—History—19th century
Social medicine—Europe, Southern—History—18th century
Social medicine—Europe, Southern—History—19th century
Medical Indigency—history
Catholicism—history
Delivery of Health Care—history
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Social Welfare—history
Europe

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0754651568 (alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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