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 mea

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 p

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 p

The poor and the sick-poor have always presented a problem to the governments and churches of Europe. Whose responsibility are they? Are they a wilful burden on

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. In recent decades, the history of medici