Book Cover -- Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700 -- STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Chapter 1 The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF REFORMED EMIGRATION AND RE-EMIGRATION FOR THE CHANGES IN WELFARE PROVISION IN UNITED PROVINCES -- THE HANSEATIC CITIES OF NORTHERN GERMANY -- DENMARK -- SWEDEN -- DANZIG -- ENGLAND -- SCOTLAND -- NOTES -- Chapter 2 The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighbourly love -- BAPTISM -- MIDWIFERY -- NURSING -- HOSPITALS -- NOTES -- Chapter 3 Dutch influence on urban planning, health care and poor relief -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- Chapter 4 Continuity and change -- SOCIAL POLICY IN A COSMOPOLITAN WORLD-PORT -- WELFARE PROGRAMMES IN A CALVINIST REPUBLIC -- PATTERNS OF CHARITY IN A CATHOLIC INDUSTRIAL TOWN -- NOTES -- Chapter 5 Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns -- CONCEPTS -- OUTDOOR RELIEF -- INDOOR RELIEF -- HOSPITAL CARE -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 6 Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth-century Denmark -- HOSPITALS -- PHYSICIANS AND APOTHECARIES -- HYGIENIC MEASURES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Chapter 7 The wrath of God -- NOTES -- Chapter 8 Health care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES -- Chapter 9 Health care and poor relief In Danzig (Gdansk) -- GENERAL REMARKS -- POOR RELIEF -- HEALTH CARE -- THE MENTAL AND MEDICAL RESPONSE TO ILLNESS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- Chapter 10 Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575-1710 -- NOTES -- Chapter 11 Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London -- THE ROYAL EPISODE -- THE CIVIC EPISODE -- THE METROPOLITAN EPISODE -- THE BAROQUE EPISODE -- THE VOLUNTARY EPISODE -- NOTES -- Index.