The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancient Regime and Revolutionary France (Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine) [Hardcover]

Colin Jones (Author)

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Series: Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine | Publication Date: January 1990

Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, this volume provides a sweeping overview of the institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries. This book should be of interest to students and teachers in medical sociology and social history.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Routledge (January 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415021332
ISBN-13: 978-0415021333
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,752,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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