Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century southern Europe / edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Bernd Roeck.

"The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on the honest working population, or are they a necessary presence for the true Christian to live the true Christian life? In the 18th a...

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Main Authors: Grell, Ole Peter (Author), Cunningham, Andrew, Dr (Author), Roeck, Bernd (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Oxon, England] : Routledge, 2017.
Series:History of medicine in context.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Some Closing and Opening Remarks
  • chapter 2 Health Care and Poor Relief in Southern Europe in the 18th and 19th Centuries
  • chapter 3 Poor Relief and Health Care in Southern Europe, 1700-1900: The Ideological Context
  • chapter 4 Demand and Charitable Supply: Poverty and Poor Relief in Austria in the 18th and 19th Centuries
  • chapter 5 Welfare Provision in Castile and Madrid
  • chapter 6 Poor Relief and Health Care in 18th and 19th Century Catalonia and Barcelona
  • chapter 7 Poor Relief, Social Control and Health Care in 18th and 19th Century Portugal
  • chapter 8 The Pope, the Beggar, the Sick, and the Brotherhoods: Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Rome
  • chapter 9 Poor Relief, Enlightenment Medicine and the Protomedicato of Parma, 1748-1820
  • chapter 10 Poverty, Relief and Hospitals in Naples in the 18th and 19th Centuries
  • chapter 11 Medicine for the Poor in 18th and 19th Century Bologna
  • chapter 12 Welfare Provision in Piedmont
  • chapter 13 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.