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Book Hospital Politics in Seventeenth century France

Download or read book Hospital Politics in Seventeenth century France written by Tim McHugh and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores poor relief and charitable health care in French cities during the seventeenth century, a period that witnessed much reform and change in the way these services were administered. By reintegrating the social aspirations of urban elites into the history of French poor relief, it shows how they initiated reform in towns and cities when it suited them, but where such reforms were not perceived as needed, or not affordable, they ignored central government edicts to build new institutions. In other words, reforms of poor relief and health welfare were local and shaped by local experiences, not as part of the crown's drive towards centralization.

Book Hospital Politics in Seventeenth Century France

Download or read book Hospital Politics in Seventeenth Century France written by Tim McHugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. In so doing it revises our understanding of the roles played in these issues by the crown and social elites, arguing that central government's social policy was conservative and largely reactive to pressure from local elites. It suggests that Louis XIV's policy regarding the reform of poor relief and the creation of General Hospitals in each town and city, as enshrined in the edict of 1662, was largely driven by the religious concerns of the kingdom's devout and the financial fears of the Parisian elites that their city hospitals were overburdened. Only after the Sun King's reign did central government begin to take a proactive role in administering poor relief and health care, utilizing urban charitable institutions to further its own political goals. By reintegrating the social aspirations of urban elites into the history of French poor relief, this book shows how the key role they played in the reform of hospitals, inspired by a mix of religious, economic and social motivations. It concludes that the state could be a reluctant participant in reform, until pressured into action by assisting elite groups pursuing their own goals.

Book The Routledge Handbook of French History

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of French History written by David Andress and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "Francia," through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past. Short, incisive contributions by a wide range of expert scholars offer both a spine of chronological overviews and a diverse spectrum of up-to-date insights into areas of key interest to historians today. From the ravages of the Vikings to the role of gastronomy in the definition of French culture, from Caribbean slavery to the place of Algerians in present-day France, from the role of French queens in medieval diplomacy to the youth-culture explosion of the 1960s and the explosions of France’s nuclear weapons program, this handbook provides accessible summaries and selected further reading to explore any and all of these issues further, in the classroom and beyond.

Book Vital Negotiations

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marion Stange
  • Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 3899719999
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book Vital Negotiations written by Marion Stange and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the field of health care and disease control as a field of policy that was of pivotal importance for the existence and stability of European colonies in the south-eastern areas of the North American continent, the book analyzes modes of local organization and regulation in French Louisiana and British South Carolina during the first half of the eighteenth century. The work shows that, in spite of completely different imperial strategies and systems of rule, striking similarities existed between French and British colonies with regard to governance modes and the nature of agents involved in political organization. This attests to the fact that governance practices on the local and the colonial levels were informed at least as much by local conditions as by the nature of the empire to which the colonies respectively belonged. The work offers a fresh and unique perspective on the realities of colonial rule in early modern North America, thus challenging traditional notions which stress the differences between the French and British colonial empires in North America with regard to administrative practices.

Book Europe   s Welfare Traditions Since 1500  Volume 1

Download or read book Europe s Welfare Traditions Since 1500 Volume 1 written by Thomas McStay Adams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal, France, and Italy to Britain, Belgium and Germany. He shows that the provision of assistance to those in need has faced recognizably similar challenges from the 16th century through to the present: how to allocate aid equitably (and with dignity); how to give support without undermining autonomy (and motivation); and how to balance private and public spheres of action and responsibility. Across two authoritative volumes, Adams reveals how social welfare administrators, critics, and improvers have engaged in a constant exchange of models and experience locally and across Europe. The narrative begins with the founding of the Casa da Misericordia of Lisbon in 1498, a model replicated throughout Portugal and its empire, and ends with the relaunch of a social agenda for the European Union at the meeting of the Council of Europe in Lisbon in 2000. Volume 1, which focuses on the period from 1500 to 1700, discusses the concepts of 'welfare' and 'tradition'. It looks at how 16th-century humanists joined with merchants and lawyers to renew traditional charity in distinctly modern forms, and how the discipline of religious reform affected the exercise of political authority and the promotion of economic productivity. Volume 2 examines 18th-century bienfaisance which secularized a Christian humanist notion of beneficence, producing new and sharply contested assertions of social citizenship. It goes on to consider how national struggles to establish comprehensive welfare states since the second half of the 19th century built on the power of the vote as politicians, pushed by activists and advised by experts, appealed to a growing class of industrial workers. Lastly, it looks at how 20th-century welfare states addressed aspirations for social citizenship while the institutional framework for European economic cooperation came to fruition

Book Vincentian Heritage

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Vincentian Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris During the Siege of 1870 71

Download or read book History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris During the Siege of 1870 71 written by Thomas Wiltberger Evans and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth century France

Download or read book Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth century France written by Susan E. Dinan and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the history of the Daughters of Charity through the seventeenth century, this study examines how the community's existence outside of convents helped to change the nature of women's religious communities and the early modern Catholic church. This book places the Daughters of Charity within the context of early modern poor relief in France, showing how they played a critical role in shaping the system, and also how they were shaped by it.

Book American Book Publishing Record

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Future of Public Health

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  • Author : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 1988-01-15
  • ISBN : 0309581907
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book The Future of Public Health written by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science  Art  and Finance

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition

Download or read book Childhood and Violence in the Western Tradition written by L. W. B. Brockliss and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2010 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is divided into six. The first four deal with different manifestations through the centuries of what would be today considered violence and neglect. The fifth and sixth chapters look at the various violent and non-violent strategies used by children as coping mechanisms in what to us seems a very harsh world.

Book The Medical World of Early Modern France

Download or read book The Medical World of Early Modern France written by L. W. B. Brockliss and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Medical World of Early Modern France recounts the history of medicine in France between the sixteenth century and the French Revolution. Physicians, surgeons and apothecaries are centre-stage, and the study provides an overview of long-term changes in their ideas about medicine and their craft. Other denizens of the medical world - quacks, charlatans, wise women, midwives, herbalist and others - are also brought into the analysis, which is set within the broader context of social, economic, demographic and cultural change. The breadth of the chronological and analytical framework, and the depth of the archival research behind it, makes this a unique account of the evolution of medical ideas and practices in one of the major countries of early modern Europe.

Book British Medical Journal

Download or read book British Medical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of French Architecture from the Death of Mazarin Till the Death of Louis XV  1661 1774

Download or read book A History of French Architecture from the Death of Mazarin Till the Death of Louis XV 1661 1774 written by Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: