Author : Jonathan Barry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134833466
This volume offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe up to the advent of welfare states in the twentieth century.
Author : Jonathan Barry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1134833458
What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe, up to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Through detailed case studies, the authors highlight significant differences between Britain, France, Italy and Germany, and offer a critical vocabulary for grasping the issues raised. This volume reflects recent developments relating to the role of charity in medicine, particularly the revival of interest in the place of voluntary provision in contemporary social policy. It emphasizes the changing balance of "care" and "cure" as the aim of medical charity, and shows how economic and political factors influenced the various forms of charity.
Author : David Garland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199672660
This Very Short Introduction discusses the necessity of welfare states in modern capitalist societies. Situating social policy in an historical, sociological, and comparative perspective, David Garland brings a new understanding to familiar debates, policies, and institutions.
Author : Ole Peter Grell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351931407
This volume looks at how northern European governments of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries coped with the needs of the poor, whilst balancing any new measures against the perceived negative effects of relief upon the moral wellbeing of the poor and issues of social stability. Taken together, the essays in this volume chart the varying responses of states, social classes and political theorists towards the great social and economic issue of the age, industrialisation. Its demands and effects undermined the capacity of the old poor relief arrangements to look after those people that the fits and starts of the industrialisation cycle itself turned into paupers. The result was a response that replaced the traditional principle of 'outdoor' relief, with a generally repressive system of 'indoor' relief that lasted until the rise of organised labour forced a more benign approach to the problems of poverty.
Author : Dorothy Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2005-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1134637179
This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of: * pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times * the Enlightenment and its effects * centralization in Victorian Britain * localization of health care in the United States * population issues and family welfare * the rise of the classic welfare state * attitudes towards public health into the twenty-first century.
Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1135363803
First published in 1996. These essays present a statement on the long-term development of welfare policy in Britain. Relating to current issues such as the cost of pensions, this work examines provisions for the poor, infirm and aged over four centuries of British history.
Author : Anne Borsay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429832680
First published in 1999, this rewarding volume offers a close and systematic analysis of the General Infirmary at Bath, which was founded in 1739 to grant ‘lepers and cripples, and other indigent strangers’ access to the spa waters. Four main themes are pursued in order to locate the hospital within its economic, socio-cultural and political contexts: arrangements for management and finance under the conditions of a prospering commercial economy; the rewards and restrictions experienced by the physicians and surgeons who donated their professional services free of charge; and the constructions of an integrated social and political élite around the physical and moral rehabilitation of the sick poor. In this way, the example of Bath – a stylish resort whose visitors and residents exemplified the dynamic of fashionable philanthropy – is used to open up issues of significance to our understanding of Georgian Britain as a whole.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 31,20 MB
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9004418369
The book focuses on whether the construction of a public health system is an inherent characteristic of the managerial function of modern political systems. Thus, each essay traces the steps leading to the growth of health government in various nations, examining the specific conflicts and contradictions which each incurred.
Author : Peter N. Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1195 pages
File Size : 37,98 MB
Release : 1993-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1135583471
A reference surveying the major concerns, findings, and terms of social history. The coverage includes major categories within social history (family, demographic transition, multiculturalism, industrialization, nationalism); major aspects of life for which social history has provided a crucial per
Author : David Gladstone
Publisher : Institute of Economic Affairs
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Social historians describe welfare delivery systems prior to 1948.
