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The Charitable Imperative

The Charitable Imperative

Colin Jones

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2026
Materia
Historia de la medicina
ISBN:
9781032896366
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The Charitable Imperative, first published in 1989, provides an overview of the very different institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries: hospitals and poorhouses, military infirmaries, reformatories for prostitutes, holding places for the insane, and so on.

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