The Charitable Imperative: Hospitals and Nursing in Ancien Regime and Revolutionary France

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List of figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction The Charitable Imperative Part One: The Social Role of Hospitals 1. Hospitals in seventeenth-century France 2. The Social Functions of the hospital in eighteenth-century France: the case of the Hotel-Dieu of Nimes (With Michael Sonenscher) Part Two: Hospital Nursing 3. Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac and the revival of nursing in seventeenth-century France 4. The Daughters of Charity in the Hotel-Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier before the French Revolution 5. The Daughters of Charity in hospitals from Louis X111 to Louis-Philippe Part Three: Charity, Repression and Medicine 6. The welfare of the French foot-soldier from Richelieu to Napoleon 7. The Montpellier Bon Pasteur and the repression of prostitution in the Ancien Regime 8. The Prehistory of the lunatic asylum in provincial France: the treatment of the insane in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Montpellier.

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