Care in the past : archaeological and interdisciplinary perspectives /

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"Care-giving is an activity that has been practiced by all human societies. From the earliest societies through to the present, all humans have faced choices regarding how people in positions of dependency are to be treated. As such, care-giving, and the form it takes, is a central experience o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.
Temas:
Social archaeology.
Archaeology and history.
Caregivers > History.
Caring > Social aspects > History.
Child care > History.
Older people > Care > History.
People with disabilities > Care > History.
Animal welfare > History.
Archaeology.
Older people.
Patient Care > history
Aged
Disabled Persons > history
Caregivers > history
Archaeology
Socioeconomic Factors > history
Child Care > history
Aged, 80 and over
Archéologie sociale.
Archéologie et histoire.
Aidants naturels > Histoire.
Humanité (Morale) > Aspect social > Histoire.
Personnes âgées > Soins > Histoire.
Personnes handicapées > Soins > Histoire.
Personnes âgées.
Archéologie.
historical archaeology.
elderly.
archaeology.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Older people
Animal welfare
Archaeology and history
Caregivers
Child care
Older people > Care
People with disabilities > Care
Social archaeology
Fürsorge
Pflege
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foundations and approaches to the study of care in the past / William Southwell-Wright, Rebecca Gowland, and Lindsay Powell
  • Section 1. Care and the life course
  • Childcare in the past : the contribution of palaeopathology / Mary Lewis
  • The "terrible tyranny of the majority" : recognising population variability and individual agency in past infant feeding practices / Ellen Kendall
  • Precious things : examining the status and care of children in late medieval England through the analysis of cultural and biological markers / Heidi Dawson
  • "That tattered coat upon a stick the ageing body" : evidence for elder marginalisation and abuse in Roman Britain / Rebecca L. Gowland
  • Section 2. Care impairment and disability
  • The Palaeolithic compassion debate : alternative projections of modern-day disability into the distant past / Nick Thorpe
  • Setting the scene for an evolutionary approach to care in prehistory : a historical and philosophical journey / David Doat
  • "A long waiting for death" : dependency and the care of the disabled in a nineteenth century asylum / Shawn Phillips
  • Prayers and poultices : medieval health care at the Isle of May, Scotland, c. 430-1580 AD / Marlo Willows
  • Section 3. Care and non-human animals
  • Towards a zooarchaeology of animal "care" / Richard Thomas
  • Rare secrets of physicke : insect medicaments in historical Western society / Gary King
  • Concluding thoughts and future directions / Rebecca Gowland, Lindsay Powell, and William Southwell-Wright.

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