Medicine and charity before the welfare state
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Medicine and charity before the welfare state
（Studies in the social history of medicine）
Routledge, 1991
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Paperback edition: first published in 1994. -- size: 22 cm
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: hard ISBN 9780415057417
Description
"Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State" offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe between the Middle Ages and the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Medical history is analyzed not just as an integral part of social history, but as offering a powerful insight into relations between donors, practitioners, patients and the wider society. Through detailed case studies, the authors highlight significant differences between Britain, France, Italy and Germany, and offer a critical vocabulary for grasping the issues raised. The publication of this book reflects recent developments relating to the role of charity in medicine, particularly the revival of interest in the place of voluntary provision in contemporary social policy. It emphasizes the changing balance of "care" and "cure" as the aim of medical charity, and shows how economic and political factors influenced the varying forms of charity. This book should be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of the history of medicine, social history, and social policy.
Table of Contents
Introduction Jonathan Barry and Colin Jones 1. Imagining medieval hospitals: consideration of the cultural meaning of institutional change Miri Rubin 2. Healing the poor: hospitals and medical assistance in Renaissance Florence Katherine Park 3. The motivations of benefactors: an overview of approaches to the study of charity Sandro Cavallo 4. "Hardly a hospital, but a charity for pauper lunatics"? Therapeutics at Bethlem in the 17th and 18th centuries Jonathan Andrews 5. Two medical charities in 18th-century London: the Lock Hospital and the Lying-In Charity for Married Women Donna Andrew 6. The Societe de Charite Maternelle , 1788-1815 S.J. Woolf 7. Urban growth and medical charity: Hamburg 1788-1815 Mary Lindemann 8. The costs and benefits of caring: nursing charities, c1830-c1860 Anne Summers 9. Lay and medical conceptions of medical charity during the 19th century: the case of the Huddersfield General Dispensary and Infirmary Hilary Marland 10. The function and malfunction of mutual aid societies in 19th-century France and Germany Paul Weindling 11. The modernization of charity in 19th-century France and Germany Paul Weindling 12. Government and charity in the distressed mining areas of England and Wales, 1928-30 Bernard Harris 13. The aches of industry: philanthropy and rheumatism in inter-war Britain David Cantor.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415111362
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What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe, up to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Through detailed case studies, the authors highlight significant differences between Britain, France, Italy and Germany, and offer a critical vocabulary for grasping the issues raised. This volume reflects recent developments relating to the role of charity in medicine, particularly the revival of interest in the place of voluntary provision in contemporary social policy. It emphasizes the changing balance of "care" and "cure" as the aim of medical charity, and shows how economic and political factors influenced the various forms of charity.
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