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abstract |
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.
General Themes: Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th-century northern Europe,
Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham; Health care and the construction of citizenship
in civil societies in the era of the Enlightenment and industrialisation, Dorothy
Porter; Histories of risk and welfare in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries,
Marco van Leeuwen; The German States: Health care provision and poor relief in enlightenment
and 19th-century Prussia, Fritz Dross; Health care provision and poor relief in the
electorate and kingdom of Bavaria, Michael Stolberg; Urban charity and the relief
of the sick poor in northern Germany, 1750–1850, Mary Lindemann; Russia and Scandinavia:
Health care and poor relief in Russia (1700–1856), Hubertus Jahn; Health care provision
and poor relief in enlightenment and 19th-century Denmark, Gerda Bonderup; Ideology
or pragmatism?: health care provision and poor relief in Norway in the 19th century,
Øivind Larsen; Britain: Health care and poor relief in provincial England, Anne Crowther;
Medical relief and the new Poor Law in London, David Green; Poor relief and health
care in 19th-century Scotland, Rosalind Mitchison; The Netherlands: Dutch approaches
to problems of illness and poverty between the Golden Age and the Fin de Siècle, Marijke
Gijswijt-Hofstra; France: Poor relief and medical assistance in 18th-and 19th-century
Paris, Matthew Ramsey; Health care provision and poor relief in 19th-century provincial
France, Olivier Faure; Index. |
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label |
Grell, Ole Peter and Cunningham, Andrew (2002). General themes: health care and
poor relief in 18th and 19th century Northern Europe. In: Grell, Ole. Peter; Cunningham,
Andrew and Jütte, Robert eds. Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century
Northern Europe. The history of medicine in context. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate.
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| 4153 |
label |
Grell, Ole Peter and Cunningham, Andrew (2002). General themes: health care and poor
relief in 18th and 19th century Northern Europe. In: Grell, Ole. Peter; Cunningham,
Andrew and Jütte, Robert eds. Health care and poor relief in 18th and 19th century
Northern Europe. The history of medicine in context. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. |