The Charitable Imperative

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 Hôtel-Dieu of Nîmes 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 Hôtel-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 Régime 8. The Prehistory of the Lunatic Asylum in Provincial France: The Treatment of the Insane in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Montpellier. Index.