| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 211 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Studies in the social history of medicine |
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Contents |
1. The manorial court and the elderly tenant in late medieval England / Richard M. Smith -- 2. sufferings of the clergy: illness and old age in Exeter diocese, 1300-1540 / Nicholas Orme -- 3. Old age, poverty, and disability in early modern Norwich : work, remarriage, and other expedients / Margaret Pelling -- 4. The elderly and the bereaved in eighteenth-century Ludlow / S.J. Wright -- 5. The medicalization of old age : continuity and change in Germany from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century / Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz -- 6. The elderly and the early National Health Service / Charles Webster -- 7. The welfare of the elderly in the past : a family or community responsibility? / David Thomson -- 8. Welfare institutions in comparative perspective : the fate of the elderly in contemporary south Asia and pre-industrial western Europe / Mead Cain |
| Summary |
Debates on policy concerning medical care and social welfare of the elderly become ever more pressing, and many of the assumptions on which they are based are now open to question. This study sets out to provide a historical perspective on the economic, medical, class and gender relations of the elderly, which until now have received relatively little attention. In particular, the position of the elderly is linked to the fundamental issues of health, disability and medical care. With attention currently focused on the setting of the retirement age, community and family care, and pensions, as w |
| Notes |
"First published in 1991"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Older people -- Social conditions.
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Older people -- Health and hygiene -- History
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Old age assistance -- History
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Old age assistance
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Older people -- Health and hygiene
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Older people -- Social conditions
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pelling, Margaret
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Smith, Richard Michael, 1946-
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| ISBN |
9780203213629 |
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0203213629 |
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9781134833535 |
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1134833539 |
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9781134833481 |
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1134833482 |
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9781134833528 |
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1134833520 |
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9780415111355 |
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0415111358 |
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