Charity and Welfare Free

Author: James Brodman
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0812234367

Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia (Middle Ages Series)

Hospitals were broadly conceived in the Middle Ages as establishments that received pilgrims and travelers, tended to the poor, and, with the professionalization of medicine, increasingly came to provide care to the sick and dying. Download Charity and Welfare: Hospitals and the Poor in Medieval Catalonia (Middle Ages Series) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. In Charity and Welfare, James Brodman surveys the networks of hospitals and charitable institutions in medieval Catalonia that gave food to the hungry, dowries to indigent women, shelter to the homeless, and palliative care to the ill. The book shows how, just as contemporary society struggles with the issues of welfare reform, managed health care, and assistance to the elderly, so did the people of the Middle Ages deal with questions of who to help and what criteria to use to make those decisions. In their assessments, Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.