Local hospitals in Ancien Régime France : rationalization, resistance, renewal, 1530-1789 /
"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the French Crown closed down thousands of local hospices, maladreries, and small hospitals that had been refuges for the sick and poor, supposedly acting in the name of efficiency, better management, and elimination of duplicate services. Its true...
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Montreal ; Buffalo :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1997.
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's/Hannah Institute studies in the history of medicine, health, and society ;
5. |
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