Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris

Argues that in revolutionary France and the subsequent Napoleonic empire, some physicians took the concept of equality so far as to believe that everyone had a right to health care. She explores the struggle of the reformers against political, religious, and professional opposition, their constant scrabbling for funding, and the health care actually received by sick and disabled indigent men, women, and children.Weiner, Dora B. is the author of 'Citizen-Patient in Revolutionary and Imperial Paris', published 1993 under ISBN 9780801844836 and ISBN 0801844835.