The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity
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The locus of care : families, communities, institutions, and the provision of welfare since antiquity
(Studies in the social history of medicine)
Routledge, 1998
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 been a recent evolutionary shift from informal provision to institutional care. Chapters on Europe and England use case studies and link evidence from ancient and medieval periods to contemporary problems and the recent past, whilst studies on China and South Africa look to the future of welfare throughout the world.
By placing welfare in its historical, social, cultural and demographic contexts, Locus of Care reassesses community and institutional care and the future expectations of welfare provision.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith
- Part 1 Informal Care: From Ethnography to Ancient History, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy
- Chapter 1 Household Care and Informal Networks, Peregrine Horden
- Part 2 Networks and Institutions in Western Europe c. 1500-c. 1800, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy
- Chapter 2 Networks of Care in Elizabethan English Towns, Marjorie K. McIntosh
- Chapter 3 Family Obligations and Inequalities in Access to Care in Northern Italy, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Sandra Cavallo
- Chapter 4 Self-Help and Reciprocity in Parish Assistance, Martin Dinges
- Chapter 5 Community Sponsorship and the Hospital Patient in Late Eighteenth-Century England, Amanda Berry
- Part 3 Beyond the Asylum Mental Health in Britain c. 1700-1939, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy
- Chapter 6 The Household and the Care of Lunatics in Eighteenth-Century London, Akihito Suzuki
- Chapter 7 Familial Care of 'Idiot' Children in Victorian England, David Wright
- Chapter 8 Community Care and the Control of Mental Defectives in Inter-War Britain, Mathew Thomson
- Part 4 Children and the Elderly in the Twentieth Century, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy
- Chapter 9 Safeguarding the Health of the Community, Lara Marks
- Chapter 10 Communities, 'Caring', and Institutions, Sandra Burman, Patricia van der Spuy
- Chapter 11 Demographic Conditions, Microsimulation, and Family Support for the Elderly, Zhongwei Zhao
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