Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State

by Barry, Jonathan; Jones, Colin

• ISBN13: 9780415057417
• ISBN10: 0415057418
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State" offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine from Middle Ages to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. As America attempts to overhaul its health and welfare systems, this book deals with issues that are not only of historical significance but of current relevance as well. Medical history is analysed not just as an integral part of social history, but as offering a powerful insight into relations between donors, practitioners and patients and with the wider society. This volume emphasizes the changing balance of care' and cure' as the aim of medical charity, and shows how economic and political factors influence the varying forms of charity. Through detailed case studies, the authors highlight significant differences between various countries, and offer a critical vocabulary for grasping the issues raised.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Notes	p. 12
Imagining Medieval Hospitals	p. 14
Healing the Poor	p. 26
The Motivations of Benefactors	p. 46
'Hardly a Hospital, but a Charity for Pauper Lunatics'?	p. 63
Notes	p. 77
Two Medical Charities in Eighteenth-Century London	p. 82
The Societe de Charite Maternelle, 1788-1815	p. 98
Urban Growth and Medical Charity	p. 113
The Costs and Benefits of Caring	p. 133
Lay and Medical Conceptions of Medical Charity during the Nineteenth Century	p. 149
The Function and Malfunction of Mutual Aid Societies in Nineteenth-Century France	p. 172
The Modernization of Charity in Nineteenth-Century France and Germany	p. 190
Government and Charity in the Distressed Mining Areas of England and Wales, 1928-30	p. 207
The Aches of Industry	p. 225
Index	p. 246
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