Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700

Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell, both of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

'This is a broad-ranging and detailed collection.' - Medical History'The book is a welcome addition to the history of early modern social welfare the scholarship of the articles is very high, and it is highly recommended ' - T. McHugh

• 1 The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe 2 The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighbourly love 3 Dutch influence on urban planning, health care and poor relief: the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567–1720 4 Continuity and change: attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern Antwerp 5 Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns: Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck 6 Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth-century Denmark 7 The wrath of God: Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years’ War 8 Health care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland: c.1500–1700 9 Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk): the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century 10 Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575–1710 11 Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London