The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were built to con

The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were built to con

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "

During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the French Crown closed down thousands of local hospices, maladreries, and small hospitals that had been refuges

Focusing on the field of health care and disease control as a field of policy that was of pivotal importance for the existence and stability of European colonie