The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity /: families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith.
• Other Names: Horden, Peregrine; Smith, Richard (Richard Sydney William), 1952-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 361.9; Public welfare -- History; Social service -- History; Welfare state -- History; Human services -- History; Institutional care; Community Health Services -- history; Delivery of Health Care -- history; Charities -- history; Home Nursing -- history; Public Assistance -- history; State Medicine -- history; Medical care -- History; Aide sociale -- Histoire; Service social -- Histoire; État providence -- Histoire; Services sociaux -- Histoire; Soins en institutions; Human services; Institutional care; Public welfare; Social service; Welfare state; Gezondheidszorg; Familie; Netwerken; Instellingen; Wohlfahrtsstaat; Geschichte; Aufsatzsammlung; Fürsorge; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134831913; 1134831919
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.