Andrew Cunningham and Ole Peter Grell, both of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Cambridge.

• 1 The Reformation and changes in welfare provision in early modern Northern Europe 2 The Protestant imperative of Christian care and neighbourly love 3 Dutch influence on urban planning, health care and poor relief: the North Sea and Baltic regions of Europe, 1567–1720 4 Continuity and change: attitudes towards poor relief and health care in early modern Antwerp 5 Health care provision and poor relief in early modern Hanseatic towns: Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck 6 Poor relief and health care provision in sixteenth-century Denmark 7 The wrath of God: Christian IV and poor relief in the wake of the Danish intervention in the Thirty Years’ War 8 Health care and poor relief in Sweden and Finland: c.1500–1700 9 Health care and poor relief in Danzig (Gdansk): the sixteenth- and first half of the seventeenth century 10 Poor relief and health care in Scotland, 1575–1710 11 Hospitals, workhouses and the relief of the poor in early modern London

'This is a broad-ranging and detailed collection.' - Medical History'The book is a welcome addition to the history of early modern social welfare the scholarship of the articles is very high, and it is highly recommended ' - T. McHugh