Health care and poor relief in Protestant Europe, 1500-1700
By: edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.
Contributors: Cunningham, Andrew, Dr.; Grell, Ole Peter.
Series: Studies in the social history of medicine
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 ..."--Pref.
Table of contents: title: The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe / Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham; title: The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighborly love / Ole Peter Grell; title: Dutch influence on urban planning, health care, and poor relief : the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567-1720 / Jonathan I. Israel; title: Continuity and change : attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern Antwerp / Hugo Soly; title: Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns : Hamburg, Bremen, and Lübeck / Robert Jütte; title: Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth century Denmark / Thomas Riis; title: The wrath of God : Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War / E. Ladewig Petersen; title: Health care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland : c. 1500-1700 / E.I. Kouri; title: Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk) : the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century / Maria Bogucka; title: Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575-1710 / Rosalind Mitchison; title: Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London / Paul Slack.