The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity

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ISBN: 9780415112161 | 0415112168
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/9/1998

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The Locus of Careprovides an historical perspective on welfare detailing issues of mental health, elderly and child care from antiquity to the present. The contributors reassess community and institutional care and the future expectations of welfare provisions.

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Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Informal Care: from Ethnography to Ancient History	p. 19
Household Care and Informal Networks	p. 21
Networks and Institutions in Western Europe C. 1500-C. 1800	p. 69
Networks of Care in Elizabethan English Towns	p. 71
Family Obligations and Inequalities in Access to Care in Northern Italy, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries	p. 90
Self-Help and Reciprocity in Parish Assistance	p. 111
Community Sponsorship and the Hospital Patient in Late Eighteenth-Century England	p. 126
Beyond the Asylum: Mental Health in Britain C. 1700-1939	p. 151
The Household and the Care of Lunatics in Eighteenth-Century London	p. 153
Familial Care of 'idiot' Children in Victorian England	p. 176
Community Care and the Control of Mental Defectives in Inter-War Britain	p. 198
Children and the Elderly in the Twentieth Century	p. 217
Safeguarding the Health of the Community	p. 219
Communities, 'caring', and Institutions	p. 239
Demographic Conditions, Microsimulation, and Family Support for the Elderly	p. 259
Index	p. 280
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