Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century northern Europe /

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Imprint:Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2002.
Description:vi, 337 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:The history of medicine in context
History of medicine in context.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4841045
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Other authors / contributors:Grell, Ole Peter.
Cunningham, Andrew, Dr.
Jütte, Robert.
ISBN:0754602753 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • General Themes: Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th-century northern Europe
  • Health care and the construction of citizenship in civil societies in the era of the Enlightenment and industrialisation
  • Histories of risk and welfare in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries
  • The German States: Health care provision and poor relief in enlightenment and 19th-century Prussia
  • Health care provision and poor relief in the electorate and kingdom of Bavaria
  • Urban charity and the relief of the sick poor in northern Germany, 1750-1850
  • Russia and Scandinavia: Health care and poor relief in Russia (1700-1856)
  • Health care provision and poor relief in enlightenment and 19th-century Denmark
  • Ideology or pragmatism?: health care provision and poor relief in Norway in the 19th century
  • Britain: Health care and poor relief in provincial England
  • Medical relief and the new Poor Law in London
  • Poor relief and health care in 19th-century Scotland
  • The Netherlands: Dutch approaches to problems of illness and poverty between the Golden Age and the Fin de Siècle
  • France: Poor relief and medical assistance in 18th-and 19th-century Paris
  • Health care provision and poor relief in 19th-century provincial France
  • Index