This significant work records the history of the pioneering British Home and Hospital for Incurables, founded in 1861. It examines the social, political and med

This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of the hospice movement in th

Relates charity movements to religious impulse, Enlightenment 'improvement' and the fears of the Protestant ruling elite that growing social problems, unless ad