Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Southern Europe

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 century, 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; Index.