Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700 / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

Other author Cunningham, Andrew, Dr.
Other author Grell, Ole Peter.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionviii, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Subjects
Poor--Medical care. --Europe, Northern. --History. --16th century. --Congresses.
Charities--Europe, Northern. --History. --16th century. --Congresses.
Public welfare--Europe, Northern. --History. --16th century. --Congresses.
Poor--Medical care. --Europe, Northern. --History. --17th century. --Congresses.
Charities--Europe, Northern. --History. --17th century. --Congresses.
Public welfare--Europe, Northern. --History. --17th century. --Congresses.
Reformation--Congresses.

SeriesStudies in the social history of medicine
Contents 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.
General note"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 ..."--Pref.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 97203030
ISBN0415121302

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