The locus of care : families, communities, institutions and the provision of welfare since antiquity / edited by Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith.
Contributor(s): Horden, Peregrine
| Smith, Richard.
Material type: 
BookSeries: Studies in the social history of medicine.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998Description: x, 287 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0415112168.Subject(s): Public welfare -- History | Social service -- History | Welfare state -- History | Human services -- History | Institutional careDDC classification: 361.9 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 361.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00076714 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Informal care: from ethnography to ancient history -- Part II: Networks and institutions in western Europe c. 1500- c. 1800 -- Part III: Beyond the asylum: mental health in Britain c. 1700-1939 -- Part IV: Children and the elderly in the twentieth century.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgements (p. x)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part I Informal Care: from Ethnography to Ancient History (p. 19)
- 1 Household Care and Informal Networks (p. 21)
- Part II Networks and Institutions in Western Europe C. 1500-C. 1800 (p. 69)
- 2 Networks of Care in Elizabethan English Towns (p. 71)
- 3 Family Obligations and Inequalities in Access to Care in Northern Italy, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries (p. 90)
- 4 Self-Help and Reciprocity in Parish Assistance (p. 111)
- 5 Community Sponsorship and the Hospital Patient in Late Eighteenth-Century England (p. 126)
- Part III Beyond the Asylum: Mental Health in Britain C. 1700-1939 (p. 151)
- 6 The Household and the Care of Lunatics in Eighteenth-Century London (p. 153)
- 7 Familial Care of 'idiot' Children in Victorian England (p. 176)
- 8 Community Care and the Control of Mental Defectives in Inter-War Britain (p. 198)
- Part IV Children and the Elderly in the Twentieth Century (p. 217)
- 9 Safeguarding the Health of the Community (p. 219)
- 10 Communities, 'caring', and Institutions (p. 239)
- 11 Demographic Conditions, Microsimulation, and Family Support for the Elderly (p. 259)
- Index (p. 280)