LEADER 04470oam 2200781I 450 001 9910779972503321 005 20230207222838.0 010 $a1-134-83191-9 010 $a1-134-83192-7 010 $a1-138-86820-5 010 $a1-280-05488-3 010 $a0-203-42804-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203428047 035 $a(CKB)111056485356676 035 $a(EBL)178579 035 $a(OCoLC)52098687 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000193817 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11166278 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193817 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10225844 035 $a(PQKB)11747005 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC178579 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL178579 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10056048 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL5488 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485356676 100 $a20180331d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 04$aThe locus of care $efamilies, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity /$fedited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in the social history of medicine 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-11216-8 311 $a0-203-29680-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""THE LOCUS OF CARE Families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of figures and tables""; ""Notes on the contributors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I Informal care: from ethnography to ancient history""; ""1 Household Care and Informal Networks: Comparisons and Continuities from Antiquity to the Present""; ""Part II Networks and institutions in western Europe c. 1500-c. 1800""; ""2 Networks of Care in Elizabethan English Towns: The Example of Hadleigh, Suffolk"" 327 $a""3 Family Obligations and Inequalities in Access to Care in Northern Italy, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries""""4 Self-Help and Reciprocity in Parish Assistance: Bordeaux in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries""; ""5 Community Sponsorship and the Hospital Patient in Late Eighteenth-Century England""; ""Part III Beyond the asylum: mental health in Britain c. 1700-1939""; ""6 The Household and the Care of Lunatics in Eighteenth-Century London""; ""7 Familial Care of 'Idiot' Children in Victorian England""; ""8 Community Care and the Control of Mental Defectives in Inter-war Britain"" 327 $a""Part IV Children and the elderly in the twentieth century""""9 Safeguarding the Health of the Community: Maternal and Infant Welfare Services in Four London Boroughs 1902-1936""; ""10 Communities, 'Caring', and Institutions: Apartheid and Child Care in Cape Town Since 1948""; ""11 Demographic Conditions, Microsimulation, and Family Support for the Elderly: Past, Present, and Future in China""; ""Index"" 330 $aThe care of the needy and the sick is delivered by various groups including immediate family, the wider community, religious organisations and the State funded institutions. The Locus of Care provides an historical perspective on welfare detailing who carers were in the past, where care was provided, and how far the boundary between family and state or informal and organised institutions have changed over time. Eleven international contributors provide a wide-ranging examination of themes, such as child care, mental health, and provision for the elderly and question the idea that there has 410 0$aStudies in the social history of medicine. 606 $aPublic welfare$xHistory 606 $aSocial service$xHistory 606 $aWelfare state$xHistory 606 $aHuman services$xHistory 606 $aInstitutional care 615 0$aPublic welfare$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial service$xHistory. 615 0$aWelfare state$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman services$xHistory. 615 0$aInstitutional care. 676 $a361.009 676 $a361.9 676 $a361/.009 676 $a362.9 701 $aHorden$b Peregrine$0300968 701 $aSmith$b Richard$cMB, CHB.$028496 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779972503321 996 $aThe locus of care$93819616 997 $aUNINA