Colin Jones (ed.)

Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State

Herausgeber: Barry, Jonathan; Jones, Colin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State" offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine from Middle Ages to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. As America attempts to overhaul its health and welfare systems, this book deals with issues that are not only of historical significance but of current relevance as well. Medical history is analysed not just as an integral part of social history, but as offering a powerful insight into relations between donors, practitioners and patients and with the wider society. This volume emphasizes the changing balance of care' and cure' as the aim of medical charity, and shows how economic and political factors influence the varying forms of charity. Through detailed case studies, the authors highlight significant differences between various countries, and offer a critical vocabulary for grasping the issues raised.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780415111362
• ISBN-10: 0415111366
• Artikelnr.: 22188618

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Barry is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Exeter. He works on the social and cultural history of early modern England, especially provincial urban culture, and is currently revising his Ph.D thesis on Bristol for publication by Oxford University Press. He has published a number of essays, several on medical history, and edited The Tudor and Stuart Town: A Reader (1990) and, with Joseph Melling, Culture in History (1992). Colin Jones is Professor of History at Exeter University. His books include Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740-1815 (1982), The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (1988) and The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France (1989).

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION 1 IMAGINING MEDIEVAL HOSPITALS: CONSIDERATIONS ON THE CULTURAL
MEANING OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE 2 HEALING THE POOR: HOSPITALS AND MEDICAL
ASSISTANCE IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE 3 THE MOTIVATIONS OF BENEFACTORS: AN
OVERVIEW OF APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF CHARITY 4 'HARDLY A HOSPITAL, BUT A
CHARITY FOR PAUPER LUNATICS'? THERAPEUTICS AT BETHLEM IN THE SEVENTEENTH
AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES 5 TWO MEDICAL CHARITIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
LONDON: THE LOCK HOSPITAL AND THE LYING-IN CHARITY FOR MARRIED WOMEN 6 THE
SOCIETE DE CHARITE MATERNELLE, 1788-1815 7 URBAN GROWTH AND MEDICAL
CHARITY: HAMBURG 1788-1815 8 THE COSTS AND BENEFITS OF CARING: NURSING
CHARITIES, c.1830-c.1860 9 LAY AND MEDICAL CONCEPTIONS OF MEDICAL CHARITY
DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: THE CASE OF THE HUDDERSFIELD GENERAL
DISPENSARY AND INFIRMARY 10 THE FUNCTION AND MALFUNCTION OF MUTUAL AID
SOCIETIES IN NINETEENTH[1]CENTURY FRANCE 11 THE MODERNIZATION OF CHARITY IN
NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE AND GERMANY 12 GOVERNMENT AND CHARITY IN THE
DISTRESSED MINING AREAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, 1928-30 13 THE ACHES OF
INDUSTRY: PHILANTHROPY AND RHEUMATISM IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN