Life, death, and the elderly : historical perspectives
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Life, death, and the elderly : historical perspectives
(Studies in the social history of medicine)
Routledge, 1991
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  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The experience of ageing and society's response to its elderly has changed throughout history. As debates on policy concerning the medical care and social welfare of the elderly become ever more pressing, many of the assumptions on which they are based are now open to question. "Life, Death and the Elderly" provides a wide-ranging historical exploration of the position of the elderly in society. By including studies on periods from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, the book provides a valuable perspective on the economic, medical, class and gender relations of the elderly, which until now have received relatively little attention from historians. In particular, the position of the elderly is linked to the fundamentally important issues of health, disability and medicalization. The old are shown as not merely dependent but as working to maintain themselves within a variety of systems of social support, whether from the family or the larger community. This book underlines the significant presence of the elderly in past societies and shows how limited is the notion that a loss of status of the elderly was concomitant with increasing industrialization.
This book should be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of the history of medicine, social history, and social policy.
Table of Contents
Contents: Preface Peter Laslett Introduction Margaret Pelling and Richard M. Smith Chapter One: The Manorial Court and the Elderly Tenant in Late Medieval England Richard M. Smith Chapter Two: Sufferings of the Clergy: Illness and Old Age in Exeter Diocese, 1300-1540 Nicholas Orme Chapter Three: Old Age, Poverty, and Disability in Early Modern Norwich: Work, Remarriage and Other Expedients Margaret Pelling Chapter Four: The Elderly and the Bereaved in Eighteenth-century Ludlow S.J. Wright Chapter Five: The Medicalisation of Old Age: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz Chapter Six: The Elderly and the Early National Health Service Charles Webster Chapter Seven: The Welfare of the Elderly in the Past: A Family or Community Responsibility? David Thomson Chapter Eight: Welfare Institutions in Comparative Perspective: The Fate of the Elderly in Contemporary South Asia and Pre-industrial Western Europe Mead Cain.
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