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

by Colin Jones

Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, this volume provides a sweeping overview of the institutions that treated the poor in France from the seventeenth through to the early nineteenth centuries.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415021332
• ISBN13: 9780415021333
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 317 Pages
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher