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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Horden, Peregrine, Smith, Richard (Richard Sydney William), 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
Colección:Studies in the social history of medicine.
Temas:
Public welfare > History.
Social service > History.
Welfare state > History.
Human services > History.
Institutional care.
Public Assistance > history
Delivery of Health Care > history
Community Health Services > history
State Medicine > history
Home Nursing > history
Charities > history
Aide sociale > Histoire.
Service social > Histoire.
État providence > Histoire.
Services sociaux > Histoire.
Soins en institutions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Services.
Human services
Institutional care
Public welfare
Social service
Welfare state
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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