The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity / / edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 p.)
• Disciplina: 361.009; 361.9; 361/.009; 362.9
• Soggetto topico: Public welfare - History; Social service - History; Welfare state - History; Human services - History; Institutional care
• Altri autori: HordenPeregrine SmithRichard, MB, CHB.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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"" ; ""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"" ; ""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""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The locus of care
• ISBN: 1-134-83191-9; 1-134-83192-7; 1-138-86820-5; 1-280-05488-3; 0-203-42804-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779972503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in the social history of medicine.