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.
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