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Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Health Care and Poor Relief in 18th and 19th Century Northern Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The History of Medicine in Context
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Throughout history governments have had to confront the problem of
how to deal with the poorer parts of their population. During the
medieval and early modern period this responsibility was largely
borne by religious institutions, civic institutions and individual
charity. By the eighteenth century, however, the rapid social and
economic changes brought about by industrialisation put these
systems under intolerable strain, forcing radical new solutions to
be sought to address both old and new problems of health care and
poor relief. 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. Although complete in itself, this volume also forms the
third of a four-volume survey of health care and poor relief
provision between 1500 and 1900, edited by Ole Peter Grell and
Andrew Cunningham.
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