| Description |
1 online resource (x, 287 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Studies in the social history of medicine
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Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
List of figures and tables -- Notes on the contributors -- acknowledgements -- Introduction / Peregrine Horden and Richard Smith -- pt. I Informal care: from ethnography to ancient history -- Household care and informal networks: comparisons and continuities from antiquity to the present / Peregrine Horden -- pt. II Networks of care in Elizabethan English towns: the example of Hadleigh, Suffolk / Marjorie K. McIntosh -- Family obligations and inequalities in access to care in northern Italy, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries / Sandra Cavallo -- Self-help and reciprocity in parish assistance: Bordeaux in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Martin Dinges -- Community sponsorship and the hospital patient in late eighteenth-century England / Amanda Berry -- pt. III Beyond the asylum: mental health in Britain c. 1700-1939 -- The household and the care of lunatics in eighteenth-century London / Akihito Suzuki -- Familial care of 'idiot' children in Victorian England / David Wright -- Community care and the contol of mental defectives in inter-war Britain / Mathew Thomson -- pt. IV Children and the elderly in the twentieth century -- Safeguarding the health of the community: maternal and infant welfare services in four London boroughs 1902-1936 / Lara Marks -- Comunities, 'caring', and institutions: apartheid and child care in Cape Town since 1948 / Sandra Burman and Patricia van der Spuy -- Demographic conditions, microsimulation, and family support for the elderly: past, present, and future in China / Zhongwei Zhao -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public welfare -- History.
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Public welfare. |
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History. |
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Social service -- History.
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Social service. |
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Welfare state -- History.
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Welfare state. |
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Human services -- History.
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Human services. |
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Institutional care.
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Institutional care. |
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Delivery of Health Care -- history. |
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Community Health Services -- history. |
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State Medicine -- history. |
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Home Nursing -- history. |
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Public Assistance -- history. |
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Charities -- history. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Horden, Peregrine.
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Smith, Richard (Richard Sydney William), 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Locus of care. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 0415112168 (DLC) 97015177 (OCoLC)36713289 |
| ISBN |
020329680X (electronic book) |
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9780203296806 (electronic book) |
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0203428048 (electronic book) |
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9780203428047 (electronic book) |
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9781134831920 (electronic book) |
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1134831927 (electronic book) |
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0415112168 (Cloth) |
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