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

List of Maps, Figures and Tables.? Acknowledgements.? Abbreviations.? Introduction: The Charitable Imperative??Part I: The Social Role of Hospitals? 1. Hospitals in Seventeenth-Century France? 2. (With Michael Sonenscher) The Social Functions of the Hospital in Eighteenth-Century France: The Case of the Hotel-Dieu of Nimes??Part II: Hospital Nursing? 3. Vincent de Paul, Louise de Marillac, and the Revival of Nursing in the Seventeenth Century? 4. The Daughters of Charity in the Hotel-Dieu Saint-Eloi in Montpellier before the French Revoution? 5. The Daughters of Charity in Hospitals from Louis XIII to Louis-Philippe??Part III: 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.? Index.