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Title:

The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity / edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

x, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Public welfare--History.
Social service--History.
Public welfare--History.
Welfare state--History.
Human services--History.
Institutional care.
Delivery of Health Care--history.
Community Health Services--history.
State Medicine--history.
Home Nursing--history.
Public Assistance--history.
Charities--history.
Institutional care.
Medical care--History.
Welfare state--History.
Public welfare--History.
Social service--History.
Human services--History.

Other Authors:

Horden, Peregrine.
Smith, Richard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

List of figures and tables -- Notes on the contributors -- acknowledgements -- Introduction / Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith -- pt. I Informal care: from ethnography to ancient history -- Household care and informal networks: comparisons and continuities from antiquity to the present / Peregrine Horden -- pt. II Networks of care in Elizabethan English towns: the example of Hadleigh, Suffolk / Marjorie K. McIntosh -- Family obligations and inequalities in access to care in northern Italy, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries / Sandra Cavallo -- Self-help and reciprocity in parish assistance: Bordeaux in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Martin Dinges -- Community sponsorship and the hospital patient in late eighteenth-century England / Amanda Berry -- pt. III Beyond the asylum: mental health in Britain c. 1700-1939 -- The household and the care of lunatics in eighteenth-century London / Akihito Suzuki -- Familial care of 'idiot' children in Victorian England / David Wright -- Community care and the contol of mental defectives in inter-war Britain / Mathew Thomson -- pt. IV Children and the elderly in the twentieth century -- Safeguarding the health of the community: maternal and infant welfare services in four London boroughs 1902-1936 / Lara Marks -- Comunities, 'caring', and institutions: apartheid and child care in Cape Town since 1948 / Sandra Burman and Patricia van der Spuy -- Demographic conditions, microsimulation, and family support for the elderly: past, present, and future in China / Zhongwei Zhao -- Index.

Series:

Studies in the social history of medicine

ISBN:

9780415112161
0415112168

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36713289

LCCN:

97015177

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)