LEADER 04018nam 2200661 450 001 9910796416203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5261-3042-4 035 $a(CKB)3810000000290499 035 $a(OCoLC)1085656554 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse72817 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5405963 035 $a(OCoLC)1039688466 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5405963 035 $a(DE-B1597)658757 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781526130426 035 $a(EXLCZ)993810000000290499 100 $a20180618d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChildcare, health and mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800 $e"Left to the mercy of the world" /$fAlysa Levene 210 1$aManchester :$cManchester University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 223 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a0-7190-7354-5 311 $a0-7190-7355-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [211]-219) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- The characteristics of foundlings -- Risks of death : the estimation of mortality -- Survival prospects -- The nursing network90 -- Growing up as a foster child -- Childcare and health in a local setting -- Foundlings and the local demographic context -- Conclusions. 330 $aThis book is a thorough and engaging examination of an institution and its young charges, set in the wider social, cultural, demographic and medical context of the eighteenth century. By examining the often short lives of abandoned babies, the book illustrates the variety of pathways to health, ill-health and death taken by the young and how it intersected with local epidemiology, institutional life and experiences of abandonment, feeding and child-care. For the first time, the characteristics of the babies abandoned to the London Foundling Hospital have been examined, highlighting the reasons parents and guardians had for giving up their charges. Clearly presented statistical analysis shows how these characteristics interacted with poverty and welfare to influence heath and survivorship across infancy and early childhood. The book builds up sources from Foundling Hospital records, medical tracts and parish registers to illustrate how the hospital managed the care of its children, and how it reflected wider medical ideas on feeding and child health. Child fostering, paid nursing and family formation in different parts of England are also examined, showing how this metropolitan institution called on a network of contacts to try to raise its charges to good health. This book will be of considerable significance to scholars working in economic and social history, medical and institutional history and histories of childhood and childcare in the early modern period. It will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in child-rearing and feeding practices, and inter-family relationships 606 $aFoundlings$xServices for$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aFoundlings$xHealth and hygiene$zEngland$zLondon$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aEngland. 610 $aLondon Foundling Hospital. 610 $aabandonment. 610 $acharity. 610 $achildcare. 610 $aill-health. 610 $ainfant death. 610 $amotherhood. 610 $anursing network. 610 $aparish officials. 610 $apatronage. 610 $apoverty alleviation strategy. 610 $asurvival prospects. 610 $awelfare. 615 0$aFoundlings$xServices for$xHistory 615 0$aFoundlings$xHealth and hygiene$xHistory 676 $a362.7320942142 700 $aLevene$b Alysa$f1976-$01500993 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796416203321 996 $aChildcare, health and mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741-1800$93727932 997 $aUNINA