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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' with ISBN 9780801870026 and ISBN 080187002X.
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