Hospital politics in seventeenth-century France : the crown, urban elites and the poor /
McHugh, Tim.
Aldershot : Ashgate,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theories of charity and poor relief -- Hospitals and the state -- The reform of the Paris Hotel Dieu -- The reform of poor relief in Paris -- Social welfare in a developing provincial capital: Montpellier -- Reforming social welfare in a divided town, Nîmes.
Social medicine
Medical care
Health care reform