ABSTRACT
This volume intends to provide a comparative survey of the welfare provisions available to the poor and sick in early modern, Protestant Northern Europe. It also explores the relationship between Protestantism and reform on the one hand and the changes in health care provision, that is ‘professional’ medical care, nursing and hospitals, on the other. The volume draws attention to the fact that the major context of health care provision in the early modern period was poor relief, which in turn has to be seen within the context of the ideology of the Reformation.
