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1 online resource (x, 259 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in the social history of medicine
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Imagining medieval hospitals : considerations on the cultural meaning of institutional change / Miri Rubin -- Healing the poor : hospitals and medical assistance in Renaissance Florence / Katharine Park -- The motivations of benefactors : an overview of approaches to the study of charity / Sandra Cavallo -- 'Hardly a hospital, but a charity for pauper lunatics'? : therapeutics at Bethlem in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Jonathan Andrews -- Two medical charities in eighteenth-century London : the Lock Hospital and the Lying-In Charity for married women / Donna Andrew -- The Societe de Charite Maternelle, 1788-1815 / Stuart Woolf -- Urban growth and medical charity : Hamburg 1788-1815 / Mary Lindemann -- The costs and benefits of caring : nursing charities, c.1830-c.1860 / Anne Summers. |
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Lay and medical conceptions of medical charity during the nineteenth century : the case of the Huddersfield General Dispensary and Infirmary / Hilary Marland -- The function and malfunction of mutual aid societies in nineteenth-century France / Allan Mitchell -- The modernization of charity in nineteenth-century France and Germany / Paul Weindling -- Government and charity in the distressed mining areas of England and Wales, 1928-30 / Bernard Harris -- The aches of industry : philanthropy and rheumatism in inter-war Britain / David Cantor. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social medicine -- Europe -- History.
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Social medicine. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Charities, Medical -- Europe -- History.
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Charities, Medical. |
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Europe -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Charities -- history. |
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Health Services -- history. |
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Social Conditions -- history. |
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State Medicine -- history. |
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Europe. |
| Indexed Term |
Medicine Sociology History |
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Western Europe |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Barry, Jonathan, 1956-
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Jones, Colin, 1947-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Medicine and charity before the welfare state. London ; New York : Routledge, 1991 0415057418 (DLC) 91011480 (OCoLC)23356197 |
| ISBN |
0585447179 (electronic book) |
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9780585447179 (electronic book) |
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0203736028 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203736029 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780203427781 (electronic book) |
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0203427785 (electronic book) |
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9780415057417 |
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0415057418 |
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