Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France : the crown, urban elites, and the poor

Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France : the crown, urban elites, and the poor / by Tim McHugh.

This book explores poor relief and charitable health care in French cities during the seventeenth century, a period that witnessed much reform and change in the way these services were administered. By reintegrating the social aspirations of urban elites into the history of French poor relief, it sh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McHugh, Tim
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., ©2007.
Series:History of medicine in context.
Subjects:
1600 - 1699
Social medicine > France > History > 17th century.
Medical care > Political aspects > France > History > 17th century.
Health care reform > France > History > 17th century.
Medicine > History > 17th century.
MEDICAL > Health Risk Assessment.
Medicine
Health care reform
Medical care > Political aspects
Social medicine
Ziekenhuizen.
Sociale aspecten.
France
Frankrijk.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Theories of charity and poor relief
  • Hospitals and the state
  • The reform of the Paris Hotel Dieu
  • The reform of poor relief in Paris
  • Social welfare in a developing provincial capital: Montpellier
  • Reforming social welfare in a divided town, Nîmes.

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