Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State
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- ISBN 9780415111362
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe, up to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Through detailed case studies, the authors highlight significant differences between Britain, France, Italy and Germany, and offer a critical vocabulary for grasping the issues raised. This volume reflects recent developments relating to the role of charity in medicine, particularly the revival of interest in the place of voluntary provision in contemporary social policy. It emphasizes the changing balance of "care" and "cure" as the aim of medical charity, and shows how economic and political factors influenced the various forms of charity.
Jonathan Barry is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Exeter. He works on the social and cultural history of early modern England, especially provincial urban culture, and is currently revising his Ph.D thesis on Bristol for publication by Oxford University Press. He has published a number of essays, several on medical history, and edited The Tudor and Stuart Town: A Reader (1990) and, with Joseph Melling, Culture in History (1992). Colin Jones is Professor of History at Exeter University. His books include Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740–1815 (1982), The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (1988) and The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France (1989).
