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

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in the social history of medicine Studies 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 Summary 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 Notes "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject 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 Medical Indigency -- history Social Welfare -- history Delivery of Health Care -- history Poverty -- history Christianity -- history HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues. MEDICAL -- Public Health. MEDICAL -- Health Policy. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General. MEDICAL -- Diseases. MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery. Charities Poor -- Medical care Public welfare Reformation SUBJECT Europe. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 Europe Subject Europe Northern Europe Genre/Form Electronic books proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings History Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Cunningham, Andrew, Dr. Grell, Ole Peter ISBN 0585448167 9780585448169 0203431340 9780203431344 9781134808618 1134808615 9781134808564 1134808569 9781134808601 1134808607

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