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The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancient Regime and Revolutionary France (Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine)
The Charitable Imperative Hospitals and Nursing in Ancient Regime and Revolutionary France - Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine Author:Colin Jones 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.