The charitable imperative : hospitals and nursing in ancien régime and revolutionary France
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The charitable imperative : hospitals and nursing in ancien régime and revolutionary France
（The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine）
Routledge, 1989
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Includes bibliographies and index
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Description
Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, this volume provides a sweeping overview of the institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries. This book should be of interest to students and teachers in medical sociology and social history.
Table of Contents
List of figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction The Charitable Imperative Part One: The Social Role of Hospitals 1. Hospitals in seventeenth-century France 2. The Social Functions of the hospital in eighteenth-century France: the case of the Hotel-Dieu of Nimes (With Michael Sonenscher) Part Two: Hospital Nursing 3. Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac and the revival of nursing in seventeenth-century France 4. The Daughters of Charity in the Hotel-Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier before the French Revolution 5. The Daughters of Charity in hospitals from Louis X111 to Louis-Philippe Part Three: Charity, Repression and Medicine 6. The welfare of the French foot-soldier from Richelieu to Napoleon 7. The Montpellier Bon Pasteur and the repression of prostitution in the Ancien Regime 8. The Prehistory of the lunatic asylum in provincial France: the treatment of the insane in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Montpellier.
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