| Description |
1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in the social history of medicine |
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
The care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus of Care provides an historical perspective on welfare detailing who carers were in the past, where care was provided, and how far the boundary between family and state or informal and organised institutions have changed over time. Eleven international contributors provide a wide-ranging examination of themes, such as child care, mental health, and provision for the elderly and question the idea that there has |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Public welfare -- History
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Social service -- History
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Welfare state -- History
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Human services -- History
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Institutional care.
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Public Assistance -- history
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Delivery of Health Care -- history
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Community Health Services -- history
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State Medicine -- history
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Home Nursing -- history
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Charities -- history
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
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Human services
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Institutional care
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Public welfare
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Social service
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Welfare state
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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 |
Horden, Peregrine
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Smith, Richard (Richard Sydney William), 1952-
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| ISBN |
020329680X |
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9780203296806 |
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0203428048 |
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9780203428047 |
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9781134831920 |
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1134831927 |
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9786610054886 |
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6610054886 |
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9780415112161 |
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0415112168 |
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9781134831876 |
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1134831870 |
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9781134831913 |
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1134831919 |
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9781138868205 |
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1138868205 |
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1280054883 |
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9781280054884 |
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