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, 1994
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Originally published: 1991
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Debates on policy concerning medical care and social welfare of the elderly become ever more pressing, and many of the assumptions on which they are based are now open to question. This study sets out to provide a historical perspective on the economic, medical, class and gender relations of the elderly, which until now have received relatively little attention. In particular, the position of the elderly is linked to the fundamental issues of health, disability and medical care. With attention currently focused on the setting of the retirement age, community and family care, and pensions, as well as wider debates on the rights of the elderly, this volume aims to supply a historical context for such issues.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Margaret Pelling, Richard M. Smith
- Chapter 1 The Manorial Court and the Elderly Tenant in Late Medieval England, Richard M. Smith
- Chapter 2 Sufferings of the Clergy, Nicholas Orme
- Chapter 3 Old Age, Poverty, and Disability in Early Modern Norwich, Margaret Pelling
- Chapter 4 The Elderly and the Bereaved in Eighteenth Century Ludlow, S.J. Wright
- Chapter 5 The Medicalization of Old Age, Hans-Joachim von Kondratowitz
- Chapter 6 The Elderly and the Early National Health Service, Charles Webster
- Chapter 7 The Welfare of the Elderly in the Past, David Thomson
- Chapter 8 Welfare Institutions in Comparative Perspective, Mead Cain
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