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This volume originates in the 2011 conference of the International Network for the History of Hospitals. It focuses on how institutions for the care and cure of the sick have organized their activities, from the delegation of treatments between practitioners, to the provision of food and supplies and the impact on recovery of hospital stays.

Laurinda Abreu is Professor of History at Évora University, Portugal. She was the coordinator (2001-2009) of the ERASMUS Thematic Network PHOENIX TN – European Thematic Network on Health and Social Welfare Policy. Her recent publications include L. Abreu and P. Bourdelais (eds), The Price of Life: Welfare Systems, Social Nets and Economic Growth (2007) and L. Abreu, Pina Manique. Um reformador no Portugal das Luzes (2013).
Sally Sheard is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine at the University of Liverpool, and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Her research interests focus on the interface between experts and policymakers, and the political economy of health and social welfare. Her recent publications include S. Sheard and L. Donaldson, The Nation’s Doctor: the role of the Chief Medical Officer, 1855-1998 (2005); M. Gorsky and S. Sheard (eds) Financing Medicine: the British experience since 1750 (2006); and S. Sheard, The Passionate Economist. How Brian Abel-Smith shaped global health and social welfare (2013).