Название: Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France: the crown, urban elites, and the poor
Автор: Tim Mchugh
Издательство: Ashgate Pub
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 203
Размер: 13.1 Мб
Язык: English
The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were built to confine the able bodied and existing hospitals sheltering the sick poor contracted new medical staff and shifted their focus towards offering more medical services. Whilst these moves have often been regarded as a coherent state led policy, recent scholarship has begun to question this assumption, and pick-up on more localised concerns, and resistance to centrally imposed policies. This book engages with these concerns, to investigate the links between charitable health care, poor relief, religion, national politics and urban social order in seventeenth-century France.
