Charitable Imperative - Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Regime and Revolutionary France

The Charitable Imperative, first published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, military infirmaries, reformatories for prostitutes, holding places for the insane, and so on.

List of contents

List of Maps, Figures and Tables. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Introduction: The Charitable Imperative Part I: The Social Role of Hospitals 1. Hospitals in Seventeenth-Century France 2. (With Michael Sonenscher) The Social Functions of the Hospital in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of the Hôtel-Dieu of Nîmes Part II: Hospital Nursing 3. Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac, and the Revival of Nursing in the Seventeenth Century 4. The Daughters of Charity in the Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier before the French Revoution 5. The Daughters of Charity in Hospitals from Louis XIII to Louis-Philippe Part III: Charity, Repression, and Medicine 6. The Welfare of the French Foot-Soldier from Richelieu to Napoleon 7. The Montpellier Bon Pasteur and the Repression of Prostitution in the Ancien Régime 8. The Prehistory of the Lunatic Asylum in Provincial France: The Treatment of the Insane in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Montpellier. Index.

Summary

The Charitable Imperative, first published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, military infirmaries, reformatories for prostitutes, holding places for the insane, and so on.

Product details

• Authors: Colin Jones
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032896342
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3289634-2
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, France, HISTORY / Europe / France, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / History, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Medicine, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, C 1600 To C 1700, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, C 1700 To C 1800