Tim McHugh

Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France

The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 shows how they initiated reform in towns and cities when it suited them, but where such reforms were not perceived as needed, or not affordable, they ignored central government edicts to build new institutions. In other words, reforms of poor relief and health welfare were local and shaped by local experiences, not as part of the crown's drive towards centralization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780754657620
• ISBN-10: 0754657620
• Artikelnr.: 47440411

Autorenporträt

Tim McHugh is Wellcome Trust Researcher and Lecturer in the History of Medicine in the School of History at Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One Theories of Charity and Poor Relief
Chapter Two Hospitals and the State
Chapter Three The Reform of the Paris Hôtel Dieu
Chapter Four The Reform of Poor Relief in Paris
Chapter Five Social Welfare in a Developing Provincial Capital: Montpellier
Chapter Six Reforming Social Welfare in a Divided Town: Nîmes
conclusions Conclusions