Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State

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.

Jonathan Barry is a Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Exeter. He works on the social and cultural history of early modern England, especially provincial urban culture, and is currently revising his Ph.D thesis on Bristol for publication by Oxford University Press. He has published a number of essays, several on medical history, and edited The Tudor and Stuart Town: A Reader (1990) and, with Joseph Melling, Culture in History (1992). Colin Jones is Professor of History at Exeter University. His books include Charity and Bienfaisance: The Treatment of the Poor in the Montpellier Region 1740-1815 (1982), The Longman Companion to the French Revolution (1988) and The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Régime and Revolutionary France (1989).