Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700 /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1997.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
SERIES
Series Title
Studies in the social history of medicine
GENERAL NOTES
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"Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at a conference entitled Health care provision and poor relief in the Baltic and North Sea Region 1500-1700, held in Odense, Denmark, in September 1994 ... two papers which were not presented at the conference have been added ..."--Preface.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe / Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham -- The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighborly love / Ole Peter Grell -- Dutch influence on urban planning, health care, and poor relief : the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567-1720 / Jonathan I. Israel -- Continuity and change : attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern Antwerp / Hugo Soly -- Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns : Hamburg, Bremen, and Lübeck / Robert Jütte -- Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth century Denmark / Thomas Riis -- The wrath of God : Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War / E. Ladewig Petersen -- Health care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland : c. 1500-1700 / E.I. Kouri -- Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk) : the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century / Maria Bogucka --Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575-1710 / Rosalind Mitchison -- Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London / Paul Slack.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book provides an outline of the developments in health care and poor relief in Northern Europe by drawing on research into local conditions and mapping general patterns of development.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700.
International Standard Book Number
0415121302
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Charities-- Europe, Northern-- History-- 16th century, Congresses.
Charities-- Europe, Northern-- History-- 17th century, Congresses.
Poor-- Medical care-- Europe, Northern-- History-- 16th century, Congresses.
Poor-- Medical care-- Europe, Northern-- History-- 17th century, Congresses.
Public welfare-- Europe, Northern-- History-- 16th century, Congresses.
Public welfare-- Europe, Northern-- History-- 17th century, Congresses.