books.google.ie - "Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State" offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine from Middle Ages to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. As America attempts to overhaul its health and welfare systems, this book deals with issues that are not only...http://books.google.ie/books/about/Medicine_and_charity_before_the_welfare.html?id=Kt5eZPSdQH0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareMedicine and charity before the welfare state