The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

This work provides a historical perspective on welfare throughout the world, detailing who carers were in the past, where care was provided and how far the boundary between family and state or informal and organized institutions have changed over time. 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. Edited By Peregrine Horden And Richard Smith. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures and tables......Page 8 Notes on the contributors......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 11 INTRODUCTION......Page 12 HOUSEHOLD CARE AND INFORMAL NETWORKS: COMPARISONS AND CONTINUITIES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT......Page 32 NETWORKS OF CARE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLISH TOWNS: THE EXAMPLE OF HADLEIGH, SUFFOLK......Page 82 FAMILY OBLIGATIONS AND INEQUALITIES IN ACCESS TO CARE IN NORTHERN ITALY, SEVENTEENTH TO EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES......Page 101 SELF-HELP AND RECIPROCITY IN PARISH ASSISTANCE: BORDEAUX IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES......Page 122 COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP AND THE HOSPITAL PATIENT IN LATE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND......Page 137 THE HOUSEHOLD AND THE CARE OF LUNATICS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON......Page 164 FAMILIAL CARE OF 'IDIOT' CHILDREN IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND......Page 187 COMMUNITY CARE AND THE CONTROL OF MENTAL DEFECTIVES IN INTER-WAR BRITAIN......Page 209 SAFEGUARDING THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY: MATERNAL AND INFANT WELFARE SERVICES IN FOUR LONDON BOROUGHS 1902 1936......Page 230 COMMUNITIES, 'CARING', AND INSTITUTIONS: APARTHEID AND CHILD CARE IN CAPE TOWN SINCE 1948......Page 250 DEMOGRAPHIC CONDITIONS, MICROSIMULATION, AND FAMILY SUPPORT FOR THE ELDERLY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE IN CHINA......Page 270 Index......Page 291 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.